He takes on global killers

When it comes to fighting deadly viruses that have plagued the planet in recent years, China can count on Gao Fu, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Yingxue reports.

Viruses like HIV, HPV, Ebola and Zika are only able to replicate themselves by hijacking the reproductive apparatus of cells and making them reproduce the virus' genetic structure instead.

Gao Fu, also known as George Gao, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, studies how viruses invade cells. By understanding how a virus and a cell, or an immune cell and an infected cell (that you would find in a tumor) interact - how they recognize and conduct a "dialogue" with one another - means that this communication can be interrupted and new therapy to prevent the targeting of healthy cells can be developed.