About Wenzhong Wu’s work
From January to June 2000, Wenzhong Wu held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Baptist University. At the time, Wu was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Wenzhong Wu graduated from Wuhan University in 1990, received a master’s degree in ecotoxicology from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995。Wu conducted doctoral research under the supervision of professor Antonius Kettrup of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. After graduation, he worked at the German National Research Center for Environment and Health, the Technical University of Munich and the Hong Kong Baptist University, engaged in ecotoxicology research.
As a United Nations Distinguished Environmental Expert, he conducted training for the environmental departments of Japan, South Korea and other countries. Wu led the establishment of the National Dioxin Laboratory, drafted and formulated the national environmental standard dioxin testing method. At the same time, he also presided over a number of major research projects. Upon returning to China, Wu realised that only a few hundred of China's tens of thousands of R&D achievements were transformed into real productivity every year, so he founded InnoBio Corporation Limited in 2003.