Zuoyan Zhu, Chinese geneticist (Li County, Hunan Province 30 September 1941 –

Authored over 100 papers being 3 of them which have been regarded classic works in the field of transgenic fish

With Dizhou Tong obtained the first ever cloned vertebrate from a egg whose cytoplasm and nucleus are from different genera (1973)

Produced the first batch of transgenic fish in the world (1984)

First claim on successful transfer of hGH into goldfish eggs (1985)

Discovered transgene mosaicism and developed a strategy to clone homogeneous transgenic fish