Biography

Dr. Jian-Yong WU is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2004. His research program focuses on Food science and engineering, Functional foods, Bioprocess engineering and technology with medicinal fungi and plant tissue cultures and extraction and processing of food and medicinal products. He has published over 150 refereed journal papers and presented over 100 conference papers. He has supervised for 15 PhD and MSc/MPhil students. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member for Biotechnology Applied Biochemistry journal and he is also the guest editor for Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry journal.

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Research Interest

Bioprocess engineering and technology with medicinal fungi and plant tissue cultures, Food science and engineering; Functional foods, Ultrasound-assisted extraction and processing of food and medicinal products and Green synthesis of nano-particles with biopolymers.