Wang Jun (scientist)
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Wang Jun (scientist)
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Wang Jun is a Chinese scientist, founder and CEO of iCarbonX, and former CEO of the Beijing Genomics Institute. While studying as a PhD student at Peking University, in 1999 Wang founded the bioinformatics group at BGI, which lead China's contribution to sequencing 1% of the Human Genome Project. His team was subsequently involved in efforts to genetically sequence the first Asian person, the rice plant, SARS, the giant panda, silkworms, pigs, chickens, goats, and the human gut microbiome, among
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Chinese scientist
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2023-11-29T00:45:51Z
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