Guoyao Wu

Guoyao Wu is a Chinese-American animal scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Animal Science at Texas A&M University and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Wu received an undergraduate degree in Animal Science from the South China Agricultural University, then a master's degree in Animal Nutrition from China Agricultural University (formerly Beijing Agricultural University). He earned master's and Ph.D. degrees in Animal Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, Canada. He completed postdoctoral research in Nutrition and Metabolism (Diabetes and Obesity) at McGill University Faculty of Medicine and in Biochemistry at Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Medicine in Canada. He is a University Distinguished Professor of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. He is also affiliated with the university's Mentored Research Program in Space Life Sciences, where he examines nutrition issues related to space travel and skeletal muscle metabolism. Much of Wu's research has focused on amino acid biochemistry and nutrition in animals, including the arginine-nitric oxide pathway, as well as the syntheses of the arginine-family of amino acids (including arginine, citrulline, glutamate, glutamine, and proline) and glycine in mammals, birds and fish. He recently proposed two important new concepts in nutrition: functional amino acids and dietary requirements of animals for synthesizable amino acids.

In 2012, Wu was elected Fellow of the AAAS. He is listed among the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers for 2014-2019. His papers have been cited over 54,000 times with an H-index of 117 and an i10-index of 487 in Google Scholar (as of January 15, 2020). Three of his journal articles have each been cited over 2,600 times. He has published two textbooks/reference books: "Amino Acids: Biochemistry and Nutrition" (CRC Press, 2013) and "Principles of Animal Nutrition" (CRC Press, 2018). He has received many awards from his professional societies, including the Established Investigator award from the American Heart Association (1998); the AFIA Nonruminant Nutrition Research Award from the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS, 2004); the FASS-AFIA New Frontiers in Animal Nutrition Award from the Federation of Animal Science Societies (2008); and the Morrison award from the ASAS (2018). He has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of "The Biochemical Journal" and "The Journal of Nutrition".He is currently an Editor of "Amino Acids", "Frontiers in Bioscience", "Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology", and the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.