11th International Symposium on DNA Damage Response & Human Disease (isDDRHD-2020)  

The 11th International Symposium on DNA Damage Response & Human Disease (isDDRHD-2020) has been held successfully from November 6^th to November 7^th, 2020 at A5 auditorium, Lihu Campus of Shenzhen University.

The Symposium is organized by Shenzhen University Health Science Center (SZUHSC), the Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Cell Signal Transduction Committee, Chinese Society for Cell Biology. The president of SZU Dr. Qingquan Li and the Director of the SZUHSC Dr. Wei-Guo Zhu serve as the meeting president. The co-organizers are Drs. Xingzhi Xu, (SZU), Zhao-Qi Wang ( FLI). The isDDRHD series with a theme focusing on DNA damage response, genome stability and cancer was initiated as the Sino-German DNA Repair meeting in 2010 and has evolved into an annual international symposium since 2012. Over the past 10 years, isDDRHD has earned the reputation as one of the strongest and most respected research conferences in China.

The opening ceremony of isDDRHD-2020 were chaired by Profs. Xingzhi Xu, Zhao-Qi Wang (online). The keynote speeches were reported by Prof. Thanos D Halazonetis (University of Geneva) online and Prof. Xiaochun Yu (Westlake University). Additionally, more than 20 well-known experts and scholars at domestic and abroad (joined online) made wonderful speech, including Prof. Jan Karlseder, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Prof. Zhenkun Lou, Mayo Clinic; Professor Hisao Masai, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science; Professor Zhao-Qi Wang, Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Professor Yonghao Yu, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Professor Lee Zou, Harvard University. They conducted heated discussions and exchanges with over 130 young scholars from universities and research institutes.

The quality of the symposium was highly praised by the participants, and the international counterparts praised China's pooling of qualified personnel in the area of DNA damage response and the year-on-year improvement of the quality of its research. The convening of this meeting effectively promoted the development of research in the field of DNA damage repair in our university and our country.

Ataxia-Telangiectasia Workshop, ATW-2021， (http://www.atw2020.cn/) and isDDRHD-2021 will be held in Shenzhen University from November 4-7, 2021. The ATW traditionally gathers basic research scientists, clinicians and social helpers to discuss the progress and current status of the AT research, aiming to deliver strategies to cure the disease. The theme of this joint meeting is A-T molecular & clinical networks and genome stability. We are looking forward to your presentation.