Professor Lijun Shang is the founding director of Biological Security Research Centre at LMU. His
research focuses mainly on ion channels in Health and Disease. Since 2015, he expanded his
research interest into biochemical weapons and science convergence as he wished to incorporate
studies of the social impact of the advances in the life sciences. Since 2020, Professor Shang has
been leading a series of projects in the effort to provide a civil society input to the State Parties
discussions of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). Recently, he has been
awarded a grant to develop an international biological security education network (IBSEN).
