Zhigang Meng is an Associate Researcher at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at Northwest A&F University in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2012. He was an Assistant Researcher at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2008–2015), and was promoted to Associate Researcher in 2016. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary (2016–2017). He won the 2015 second-class prize National Science and Technology Progress Award, the 2015 China Agricultural Science and Technology Award Outstanding Innovation Team Award, and the 2010 first-class prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Shandong Province.