Professor of the Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine Research Lv Haitao was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) on April 26th, 2021.

Founded in 1841, the FRSC is not only the largest society of chemistry in Europe, but one of the most influential societies in the world. Each year, the FRSC elects fellows from a list of scientists in the UK and other countries who have made contributions to promoting chemistry as an academic discipline based on the recommendations of experts.

Lv Haitao, current FRSC Fellow, is the professor, principal investigator (PI) and doctoral supervisor. He established the Functional Metabonomics Laboratory for the Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine (SCSB), and has served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Metabonomics Branch of the Biophysical Society of China and a honorable member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He also works for the Macau University of Science and Technology as an adjunct professor/doctoral supervisor, and was granted QUT Vice Chancellor Research Fellowship (2/10) by the Queensland University of Technology. He has long been the editor-in-chief for the well-noted SCI journal Pharmacological Research (Q1 TOP, IF 5.9) Section and the associate editor-in-chief for Phytomedicine (Q1 TOP, IF 4.3). And he is an expert for reviewing faculty promotion for a number of well-known universities such as the University of Macau, and an evaluation expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.

Lv Haitao’s team went beyond the precision of analysis and the scope of application of conventional metabonomics methods by focusing on innovative studies in functional metabonomics methods and their application in the studies in microbial sources/traditional Chinese medicine sources as functional natural products for treatment and original studies in the latest challenging scientific problems. He has led the studies in some of China’s major R&D topics and 10-odd topics funded by the NNSFC and the China International Talent Exchange Foundation. He published 53 papers in SCI journals that have been cited for over 1,300 times by the Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Protocols and Chemical Society Reviews. He chaired the sessions of some of the top academic workshops in China and abroad for four times, and was invited to some of the leading academic conferences and well-noted foreign universities to give presentations for over 30 times.