Jun WANG

   

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CEO&Founder, iCarbonX

Jun Wang is the Founder and CEO of iCarbonX. He is also Board Member of the BGI (previously known as the Beijing Genomics Institute). He co-founded BGI in the 1999, which is now widely recognized as one of world’s premier research facilities committed to excellence in genome sciences. He has authored 400+ peer-reviewed original papers – of which 100+ are published in Cell, Nature (including Nature series), N Engl J Med., and Science (26 as cover story). He has been recognized with an award from His Royal Highness Prince Foundation, Nature’s 10 - the year in Science (2012); “Highly Cited Researchers (2013/2014/2015)” “The Hottest Scientific Researchers” (by Thomson Reuters), “Rebels, leaders, innovators for the next 25 years” (by CNBC), “Fortune’s 40 under 40” from Fortune Magazine (2013), His research focuses on genomics and related bioinformatics analysis of complex diseases and agricultural crops, with the goal of developing applications using the genomic information. WJ also managed to have three round fund-raising (about 1B$) at BGI, and acquired a US public company: Complete Genomics. Oct 27th 2015, WJ founded a new institute/company, iCarbonX, aiming to establish a health-related big Omics data platform, to develop artificial intelligence engine to interpret and mine the data as well as to enable every individual to better manage their health and defeat diseases.