On March 9, Prof. John Rogers gave a lecture on Soft, Skin-Interfaced Electronic and Microfluidic Sensors in Medicine in the Minglong Huang & Mingju Huang Seminar Series.  Dean Gu Zhen, ViceDeans Yang Huirong, Wang Yi and Ying Meidan, faculty and students attended this lecture. The lecture was hosted by Research Dr. Nan Kewang.

John Rogers is a pioneering global leader in flexible electronics research and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published more than 900 papers and created more than 10 new transform related technologies for companies. In his presentation, Academician Rogers introduced the basic research and clinical applications in the field of flexible electronic devices in an in-depth manner. Rogers encouraged the young generation of researchers to always carry the original intention of science for the benefit of mankind and make full use of cutting-edge knowledge and cross-disciplinary technologies to solve the current problems of clinical detection and treatment, and work together to protect human life and health.

Dean Gu Zhen introduced the biography of Prof. Rogers and thanked him for sharing his research with the faculty and students as the second speaker of the Minglong Huang & Mingju Huang Seminar Series.

Prof. Rogers interacted with students and teachers, and the atmosphere was warm and applauding.

The College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University (CPS-ZJU) has a long history and academic heritage, and stands as one of the earliest modern and higher pharmaceutical education institutions of China. CPS-ZJU has fostered multiple distinguished  talents for China’s modern pharmacy and pharmaceutical science and technology. These include Juhuang Zhao, one of the founders of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, and six Directors of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association in succession. Of note, 9 academicians including Dr. Minglong Huang, who was named for his Wolff-Kishner-Huang Minlon-Reduction reaction, have studied and worked here. CPS-ZJU aims to become an education epicenter for training next-generation innovators, who are equipped with global vision and interdisciplinary skills for promoting innovation and translation in the fields of pharmaceutical science and engineering. Currently, the College consists of 2 departments, 9 research institutes, and 3 community-serving institutes, which complements mutually and functions dynamically under a well-designed teaching and scientific research system. It has edged itself into a nationally acknowledged pharmaceutical college, being selected into China's Double First-class Initiative and graded Excellence in the recent national assessment. It was ranked world’s top 1‰ by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and 24th globally by the U.S. News in 2022. In 2022, the Minglong Huang & Mingju Huang Seminar Series have been initiated to memorize the two scientists and promote their spirit of innovating and translating new therspecitics to help people. 

Huang Minlon（1898-1979）

Minglong Huang, known for the Wolff-Kishner-Huang Minlon-Reduction reaction, is a highly reputed Chinese organic chemist and pharmaceutical scientist. His name was the first to appear in an organic chemical reaction in the Chinese history of science. Born in Jiangsu Province, Minglong Huang graduated from the Department of Pharmacy at Zhejiang Public Medicine and Pharmacy Specialized School (currently the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University) in 1918. He continued his study in Germany, UK, and USA. From 1925 to 1934, and returned to his alma mater in China as Professor and later as Chair in the Department of Pharmacy. In 1955, Professor Huang was elected as a member in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also served as Senior Researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Honorary President of the Chinese Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences. Professor Huang is regarded as one of the pioneers and founders of modern pharmaceutical industries in China. He devoted his life to the research of organic chemistry, especially the synthesis of steroid compounds. He has made outstanding contributions to the development of organic chemistry and the establishment of steroid drug industry.

Huang Mingju(1895-1990)

Mingju Huang, born in Jiangsu Province, was a founder and pioneer of modern analytical toxicology in China, a renowned pharmacology educator, and one of the three pioneers of modern Chinese forensic medicine (Ji Lin , Kuifang Sun, and Mingju Huang). In 1918, Mingju Huang graduated from the Department of Pharmacy at Zhejiang Public Medicine and Pharmacy Specialized School (currently the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University), and continued his study in Germany and Austria. In 1949, he served as Executive Vice Dean of Zhejiang Provincial School of Medicine. He devoted his life to the research of analytical toxicology and trained numerous forensic toxicologists in the fields of research, education and the Chinese public security departments. He is a significant pioneer in the modern analytical toxicology and pharmacology in China.