Jin-zhong Xiao Graduated from Southern China Agriculture University, China, in 1984 and finished his PhD course at Nagoya University, Japan, in 1991. After his research careers at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and RIKEN, Japan, he joined Morinaga Milk Industry in 1995. He has carried out many projects in the basic and functional researches of bifidobacteria and the development of yogurt at R&D center and published over 100 articles in the related area.
His research projects focus on microbiota and health, basic and functional aspects of probiotic bifidobacteria.
He is the recipient of JSBBA Award for Achievement in Technological Research from the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (2013), and he has received the Society Award from the Japanese Dairy Science Association (2016).