Prof. Saiyi Zhong

Saiyi Zhong is a professor and doctoral supervisor and the South China Sea Distinguished Scholar of Guangdong Ocean University. He is currently the vice dean of the College of Food Science and Technology of Guangdong Ocean University, the leader of the provincial scientific and technological innovation team “Marine Food Nutrition and Functional Factor Research and Development Innovation Team” and a training subject of the “Thousand Hundred and Ten Project” of the Guangdong Higher Education University. He is also the vice president of the marine biology branch of the Guangdong Marine Association and the director/youth working committee member of the Guangdong Food Society. He has presided over the first and third prizes of the China General Chamber of Commerce Science and Technology Award, the National Commercial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the second prize of the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Technology Promotion Award. His research interests are food-derived mutagens and carcinogens; anticancer food factors; and bioactive chemopreventive food components.