NMTia Advisory Board
TingYun Kuang
She is a researcher at the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, she helped come up with the name "Non-invasive Micro-test Technology (NMT)". She is also a pioneer in the new field of chloroplast membrane research in China. She has made systematic and creative achievements in the study of photosynthesis, photosynthetic membranes, and the structure and function of chlorophyll protein complexes.
FuYu Yang
He is a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he helped come up with the name "Non-invasive Micro-test Technology (NMT)", and is one of the founders of membrane biology in China. He has been engaged in the research of biological membranes for a long time, focusing on the interaction of membrane lipids and proteins, with a special focus on the regulation mechanism of the intracellular membrane system (mitochondria, lysosomes, etc.) on important cell life activities.
KeChun Lin
He is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and famous Chinese biophysicist, educator, and founder of medical biophysics. His main research direction is membrane biophysics: using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance to study the interaction between peptides and membranes, membrane fusion and liposomes, cytoprotective mechanisms, water structure, and biological significance of lipid polymorphism, biophysical research on membrane protein conformation, biological application of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, etc.
Sergey Shabala
Professor Sergey Shabala received his PhD in Plant Physiology from the Belarusian Institute of Experimental Botany in 1989. From 1995 to 1998, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has been working at the University of Tasmania since 1998 and was awarded a tenured professorship in 2011. He is currently Director of the Adversity Physiology Laboratory at the University of Tasmania.
Professor Sergey Shabala is mainly engaged in the study of stress response and transmembrane transport mechanism of higher plants, and is the technical co-founder of Plant Non-Invasive Micro-Test Technology (MIFE).
Marshall Porterfield
Professor at Purdue University
Former NASA representative on the National Science and Technology Council Life Sciences Subcommittee. Advisor to the Office of the President of the United States, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Fellow of the Institute of Medicine and Bioengineering
President of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology
Yue (Jeff) Xu
Yue (Jeff) Xu, a former senior research fellow of NASA from 2002 to 2006, is the founder of YoungerUSA LLC, Xuyue (Beijing) Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd., Xuyue BioFunction Institute, Zhongguancun Xuyue NMT Industrial Alliance, and NMT International Alliance. He developed and commercialized NMT from the 'vibrating probe' concept proposed by the US scientist, Dr. Lionel Jaffe of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Jeff’s work with NMT has helped thousands of scientists across the world advance their research with more than 700 papers published in various fields in the past 20 years. He is now playing a leading role in applying NMT into pharmaceuticals, health care, environmental protection, food security, anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention, new materials, new energy discovery, modern agricultural practices, and other fields of practical applications.