Biao Yu is Professor and currently Director of State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry at Shanghai Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2021. He has spent more than 20 years working on carbohydrate chemistry, especially the total synthesis of naturally occurring glycosides.
Xiaoyu Yang is Associate professor at the School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, China. His research interests focus on organic Synthesis, asymmetric Catalysis, carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology.