Dr. Bruce Xu from Food Science and Technology Program in DST was invited to attend "the 2nd Innovation Development Forum of Chinese Food Industry-University-Research" which was held on November 2-4, 2012 in Beijing. Dr Xu won "Outstanding Research Talent Award". During the meeting, Dr. Xu presented a report entitled "Telomerase Inhibitors Derived from Natural Foods and Their Anticancer Activity", Dr. Xu also attended the 1st editorial board meeting of a new international journal Food Science and Human Wellness, and received letter of appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the first editorial board of Food Science and Human Wellness with a four-year engagement period.

Dr. Baojun (Bruce) Xu, assistant professor of Food Science and Technology at Division of Science and Technology, United International College (UIC), has been selected by the Maxwell Science to be the Regional Editor of Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology (AJFST), starting from December 1, 2010. Previously, he also has been named as an Associate Editor of Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of The Open Nutraceuticals Journal since joined UIC.