2020 International Conference on Advances in Biological Science and Technology was planned to be held in Sanya, China; while due to the effect caused by COVID-19, the committee had changed into a virtual conference instead. During the dates of Oct. 28-30, ICABST2020 was successfully held in the Microsoft Teams online platform.

       ICABST2020 was organized by Asia-Pacific Association of Natural Science and Engineerin, Hanoi National University of Education and Mahidol University, supported by Spanish Biomedical Investigation Center, American Chemistry Society, IOP Science, Science Community and multiple academic affiliations.

       In the opening ceremony, conference chair Prof. Domenico Lombardo (CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IPCF- Istituto Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy) and the co-chair Dr. Dinh-Toi Chu (Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam) inaugurated the conference by delivering welcome messages. Both of them gave an introduction of APANSE and warmly welcomed the delegates from all over the world. Prof. Domenico Lombardo also made a short report about the proposal of ICABST2021. Delegates from 14 countries attended the conference, including distinguished scholars who have outstanding influence in related fields. The conference included 2 Keynote Presentations, 3 Invited Presentations, 11 Oral Presentations and 94 Poster Presentations.

ICABST is an annual academic event, the ICABST2021 is under preparation. Both Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee welcome scholars and researchers to participate the future events. ICABST is pleased to announce this Call for Proposals for individuals or groups interested in co-organize the next ICABST conference, slated for the third quarter of 2021. The proposal deadline is the February 15, 2021. If you are not personally interested but know of someone else who could do an excellent job of organizing this event, please feel free to forward this information.