The Guangzhou native moved to the U.S. as a teenager and graduated from Columbia before later finding his way back to Asia in 1997.

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The Guangzhou native went to school in Hong Kong, then came to the U.S., earning a doctorate in bacteriology and biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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