Huimin Zhao
{{short description|American chemist}}
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| nationality = Chinese
| field = Chemical Engineering
| work_institution = University of Illinois
| alma_mater = University of Science and Technology of China
California Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Frances H. Arnold
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| prizes = ACS Young Investigator (2008)
Beckman Fellow (2006-2007){{cite web |title=CAS Fellows Archive |url=https://cas.illinois.edu/archive/cas-fellows-archive/ |website=Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |accessdate=2 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630190002/https://cas.illinois.edu/archive/cas-fellows-archive/ |archive-date=30 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}
DuPont Young Investigator (2005)
NSF CAREER Award (2004)
Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication (2017)
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Huimin Zhao is the Steven L. Miller Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as well as the leader of the Biosystems Design research theme in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. His research focuses on directed evolution, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics and high throughput technologies.
Life
He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1998 from the California Institute of Technology under the guidance of Frances Arnold.{{cite web|title=Huimin Zhao |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17337-huimin-zhao |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=1 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205064449/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17337-huimin-zhao |archivedate=5 February 2015 }}
Prior to joining the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, he was a project leader at Dow Chemical. He then joined the UIUC faculty in 2000. His lab focuses on using protein engineering and metabolic engineering to harness the power of synthetic biology over four principal themes, industrial bioenergy, drug discovery and development, gene therapy, synthetic biology and immunotherapy. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science{{cite web|title=AAAS Fellows|url=http://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/AnnualReports/2009/aaas_ann_rpt_09l_fellows.pdf|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science|accessdate=18 February 2015}} and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.{{cite web|title=Huimin Zhao, Ph.D.|url=http://aimbe.org/college-of-fellows/cof-1118/|publisher=American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering|accessdate=18 February 2015}} He serves as an associate editor of ACS Catalysis.{{cite web|title=ACS Catalysis masthead|url=http://pubs.acs.org/userimages/ContentEditor/1300281600874/accacs-masthead.pdf|publisher=American Chemical Society|accessdate=18 February 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/~zhaogrp/ The Huimin Zhao Research Group]
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Category:21st-century American chemists
Category:University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Category:Dow Chemical Company employees
Category:Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
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