At the invitation of Associate Professor Wang Kuanyu from the Department of Biology, a group of five from the George Washington University, i.e., Professor Zeng Chen, Doctor Zhao Yunjie, Doctor Du Chenghang and so on visited to SUSTC from June 12 to June 13. The group of Professor Zeng conducted extensive interaction and talks with Wu Chuanyue, the academic dean of our school and principal of the Department of Biology, and professors of the Department of Biology, and discussed deeply regarding matters like major scientific problems, cooperative research, jointly training students and son on. At four o’clock of June 13, Professor Zeng Chen gave an academic lecture titled as “A new computational drug design platform to reduce drug resistance”, which motivated a wide variety of interests and triggered heated discussion.

On the lecture, Professor Zeng introduced the new method of using molecular dynamics simulation, dynamics network analysis and molecular docking, etc. to design and screen small molecular drugs, aiming at the drug resistance problems of traditional drugs design, taking HIV virus as the example. In addition, Professor Zeng also introduced the biophysics and computational biology directions of the George Washington University. He hope this lecture can absorb interested teachers and students to go to the George Washington University for exchange and study.

Professor Zeng Chen is the lifelong physics professor of the George Washington University. He has a wide range of research interests, including biochemistry and molecular biology, bioinformatics and computational biology, condensed matter physics, high temperature superconductivity and so on. At present, he mainly works on research in the aspect of computational biology physics, including drug design based on structure to big data science of biological complexity. He had published may papers on international top-level periodicals such as PRL and PNAS, etc.