Dr. Chuanlai Xu is a professor and the director of the International Lab for Biointerface and Biodetection at Jiangnan University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Wuxi College of Light Industry in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. from Jiangnan University in 2002. He worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of East Anglia in 2007 and the University of Michigan in 2008. His research interests include self-assembly of chiral nanomaterials, optical property discovery, and fabrication of nanodevices and their application in biotechnology. He combines nanotechnology and biological recognition to promote the commercialization of real applications of novel biosensors.