Recently, the results of the seventh "Principal Award for Outstanding Contribution to Postgraduate Education" of Wuhan University were announced, and five postgraduate instructors, including Professor Zhou Xiang, won this honor.

Zhou Xiang, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, is the chief expert of the National 973 Project. He has undertaken major national projects such as innovative groups of the National Natural Science Foundation and integration projects of major research plans, and has been committed to the research of nucleic acid chemical biology for a long time. Through the recognition and functional regulation of nucleic acid structure by small molecules, we have developed nucleic acid-targeted drug molecules and major disease diagnosis technologies, and achieved systematic and internationally influential innovative results. Over the years, Professor Zhou Xiang has been working hard in the front line of postgraduate education and teaching, and has trained more than 70 doctoral students and more than 20 master students, some of whom have become the backbone of related fields.

The Principal Award for Outstanding Contribution to Postgraduate Education of Wuhan University is the highest honor award in the field of postgraduate education in our university. It aims to reward postgraduate instructors who have made important contributions and made outstanding achievements in the work of degree and postgraduate education and have demonstrated and led the country.