About Xu Genjun
Lived 1935 – 2008 (aged 72). Xu Genjun was a Chinese biochemist.
Xu Genjun (; 23 November 1935 – 8 January 2008) was a Chinese biochemist. He was a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Biography Xu was born in She County, Anhui on 23 November 1935. He graduated from the Chemistry Department of Fudan University in 1957, and joined the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry afterwards, where he participated in and made significant contributions to the insulin synthesis project led by Wang Yinglai. He later researched enzyme kinetics, chemical modification of proteins, the relationship between proteins' structure and function, and the folding and refolding of proteins.
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Chinese biochemist (1935-2008)
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Xu Genjun was born on 23 November 1935.
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Xu Genjun died on 8 January 2008.
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Xu Genjun was a biochemist.
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