Deng Zixin

Deng Zixin (Chinese: 邓子新; born 1957) is a Chinese microbiologist and Professor of Microbiology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Deng Zixin
Born	1957 (age 67–68) Hubei, China
Alma mater	Huazhong Agricultural University University of East Anglia
Scientific career
Fields	Microbiology
Institutions	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wuhan University Huazhong Agricultural University
Thesis	A molecular study of a region of the Streptomyces plasmid pIJ101 (1987)
Doctoral advisor	David Hopwood and Tobias Kieser[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Deng.

Born in Hubei, China, he graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University with a BSc in microbiology in 1982 and completed his PhD on the genetics of Streptomyces at the University of East Anglia in 1987.^[1] He was made a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2006, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2010. He is currently the dean of School of Pharmacy at Wuhan University and director of Wuhan Institute of Biotechnology.^[2]