The Huzhou government congratulated Yu Biao, a Huzhou native, on Nov 19 after he became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A total of 194 new academicians from home and abroad were on Nov 18 named as new members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Academician is the highest academic title in China for science workers. The prestigious list is updated every two years.

In the congratulatory letter sent to Yu, the government praised the scientist for his remarkable accomplishments in carbohydrate chemistry. 

Yu was born in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province in 1967 and graduated from the Department of Technical Physics, Peking University in 1989.

He later pursued his master's degree and doctor's degree at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1995, and became a postdoctoral research fellow at New York University in 1998.

Yu is now a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and head of the State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry.

He is the first Chinese scientist to receive the Roy L. Whistler Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry for 2022.