Jean Paul Sinuvayo, an international student from Rwanda, who won Cas-Twas Scholarship 2017. successfully completed his PhD thesis defense in June 2021. During his 4-year of study in the CAS-TWAS Center of Excellence for Biotechnology, Jean Paul Sinuvayo has developed a new route for constructing homologous microorganisms to combine into complex compounds, and constructed an independent and orthogonal homologous microbiome of xylose and glucose metabolism by cooperating with otherstudentsat the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Physiology and Biotechnology in the institute of Microbiology, CAS. His research results were published with5 SCI papers onMetabolic Engineeringand Bioresources and Bioprocessing. Because of his excellent work, Jean Paul Sinumvayo won the2021Outstanding International Graduateof University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). Paul's story, titled "Aiming to contribute to the green growth of Rwanda -- a story of Dr. Jean Paul Sinumvayo at CoEBio" was published on TWAS website on Aug.24. 2021.

https://twas.org/article/aiming-contribute-green-growth-rwanda