About Zhonghe Zhai’s work
Zhonghe Zhai held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from February to June 1995. At the time, Zhai was based at Peking University.
Biography
Zhai Zhonghe was admitted to the Department of Biology of Tsinghua University in 1950, and in 1951, he was one of the first batch of students sent to the Soviet Union to study in New China. After graduating from Leningrad University in 1956, he returned to China and taught at the Department of Biology of Peking University. In 1991, Zhai was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhai established cell ultrastructure technology and developed duck plague cell vaccine for the first time, making outstanding achievements in the relationship between animal virus replication and cell structure. He was the first in the world to confirm the existence of chromosomal skeleton and nuclear skeleton in primitive eukaryotic cells, and established the experimental model of nuclear reconstruction of non-cellular system for the first time in China, and visually showed the nuclear skeleton system of reconstructed nucleus for the first time, and these achievements have been highly valued internationally.