Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Liang Zhang
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Rebecca Trager2025-03-03T09:31:00
Lockdown gave a young chemistry professor in China the space and time to consider the most worthwhile projects, and that has benefited his team
Right after Liang Zhang, a young chemistry professor at East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, joined the university in January 2020, efforts to build the lab that would house his team were placed on hold by Covid-19. But Zhang pressed on, helping to run a joint lab of eight researchers with his former supervisor David Leigh at the University of Manchester in the UK, by relying on virtual lab meetings and spending time writing research grant proposals.