Date: April 29, 2022

Source: JNU Trade Union

Prof. Guan Bo'ou won the National May Day Labor Medal when the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) awarded May Day honors on April 29. Another JNU professor, Luo Liangping, won the Guangdong Provincial May Day Labor Award during the International Labor Day Celebration and the Model Workers' Commendation Conference of Guangdong the same day.

(Prof. Guan, winner of the 2022 National May Day Labor Medal)

Guan, dean of the College of Science and Engineering and the Institute of Photonics Technology, has long been engaged in fiber optical sensing technology and application and has made breakthroughs in improving biological sensitivity of fiber optical sensors to single-molecule level. As a result, he charts a new course for tumor diagnosis and treatment at early stage through fiber‐optic theragnostic. He is also a pioneer in tilt angle fibers optical sensing technology, which allows a real-time angle detection of Guangzhou's landmark Canton Tower. He has also achieved rapid response of long-distance distributed fiber optical sensors, realizing continuous measurement covering 100 kilometers within five seconds. This technology also ensures the security of national major infrastructures because it is applied to online monitoring of the Litang-Guilin part of the West-East Electricity Transmission Project and the Hengyang-Nanning and Guiyang-Guangzhou high-speed railways. 

(Prof. Luo, winner of the 2022 Guangdong Provincial May Day Labor Medal)

Luo is director of JNU's Medical Department, Guangzhou's Key Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Imaging, and the Guangdong Medical Imaging Artificial Intelligence Precision Diagnosis Engineering Technology Center, as well as president of the Guangdong Medical Education Association. He has taken the lead in publishing a number of high-level papers on diagnosing Covid-19 in top international journals, one of which has been cited 457 times. As chief reviewer, Luo has supported the publication of Imaging and Differential Diagnosis of Covid-19, the world's first monograph on Covid-19 imaging diagnosis. As assistant chief reviewer, he has published Covid-19 Imaging and Clinical Diagnosis, contributing to the global fight against Covid-19. Luo has won the Guangdong Medical Industry Association's Outstanding Contribution Award in Fighting Covid-19. He has also been honored among the Outstanding Educators of Guangdong and won second prizes in Excellent Teaching Achievements in Guangdong and in Scientific and Technological Achievements of China Anti-Cancer Association.