Speakers

Yuejian Mao

Vice President

Dr. Yuejian Mao is Vice President and Head of the Nutrition Science Research Institute at Mengniu Group, one of China’s leading dairy companies. He joined Mengniu in 2023 as General Manager of R&D, where he leads scientific research and technology development in microecology and synthetic biology. Previously, he was Senior Lead Scientist and Head of the APAC R&D Center at IFF/DuPont/Danisco, focusing on starter cultures and probiotics. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Shanghai Jiao Tong University and China Agricultural University.

With 22 years of research experience in microbiology and human health, Dr. Mao has published 39 peer-reviewed papers and been granted 23 patents spanning upstream strain discovery to end-product development. He established a novel target discovery driven probiotic development platform and developed Lacticaseibacillus paracasei LC19, a strain that improves glucose homeostasis via the newly discovered GLP 1 regulating metabolite tryptophan-cholic acid (Trp-CA).

Dr. Mao holds a PhD in Microbiology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.