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27 Cell Death and Disease

28 Stem Cell and Regeneratve Medicine

29 Diagnosis and Therapy of Rare Diseases

30 Fronter of Photosynthesis Research

31 Molecules: Make Life more Precise

32 Internatonal Standards and New Progress in Medical Robots

33 Chronic Obstructve Pulmonary Disease

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02 Insect Chemical Communicaton

03 Virtual Human _ Imaging Across Scales

04 Insect Vectors for Animal and Human Diseases

05 Genome-guided applicaton in insect studies

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11 Molecules: Make Life more Precise

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16 Emerging Infectous Diseases

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18 Drug-induced Damage and Clinical Ratonal Drug Use

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41 The Symposium on Cancer Fronter

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John E. Walker

1997 Nobel Laureate inChemistry, University ofCambridge

Jules A Hoffmann

2011 Nobel Laureate inPhysiology or Medicine，University of Strasbourg

Confirmed Invited Plenary Speakers

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Zhu Chen

Honorary President of the ShanghaiInstitute of Hematology, Academicianof the Chinese Academy of Sciences

David Baltimore

1975 Nobel laureate inPhysiology or Medicine，California Institute of Technology

David Baltimore

1975 Nobel laureate inPhysiology or Medicine，California Institute ofTechnology

Kurt Wüthrich

2002 Nobel Laureate inChemistry，The Scripps Research Instituteand ETH Zurich

Longping Yuan2001 Wolf Prize in Agriculture，2004 World Food Prize，Hunan Academy of AgriculturalSciences

Aaron Ciechanover2004 Nobel Laureate inChemistry, Israel Institute ofTechnology

Vaida Vinson

Deputy Editor,Science

Yunde Hou2017 Highest Science andTechnology Award,Vice President of ChinaAcademy of Engineering

Youyou Tu2015 Nobel Laureate inPhysiology of Medicine,China Academy of TraditionalChinese Medicine

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Xuetao Cao

President of China Unionof Life Science Societies,Nankai University

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The First President of ChinaUnion of Life Science Societies,Tsinghua University

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