Hongkui Deng, Ph.D.
Scientific Founder
Dr. Deng graduated from UCLA and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU. He is currently a Changjiang Professor, the Boya Chair Professor, Senior Professor of the Center for Life Sciences and Director of the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Peking University. For a long time, Professor Deng has been committed to using chemical reprogramming to establish the methods, principles, and applications of regulating cell plasticity. He has published more than 100 papers and has been cited more than 16,000 times. In 2019, he was awarded Nature's 10 for his achievements in the field of CRISPR gene editing in human stem cells.
