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Byong-Hun Jeon works in the Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering at Hanyang University, South Korea. His research is focused on biodegradation of environmental contaminants. Nature Chemical Biology spoke to Byong-Hun about the chemical biology of phytoremediation and phycoremediation, and the opportunities that they offer.
Since its proposition in 2002, the Division of Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the National Natural Science Foundation of China has implemented a range of constructive initiatives to break down traditional boundaries between chemistry and biology and to further bridge these two fields, in order to boost the development of chemical biology in China.