Zhiguo Yu received a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical analysis from Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China, in 2005. After three additional years as a postdoctoral research associate at Nanjing University (Nanjing, China), he joined the faculty of School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a research associate. He moved to Scripps Research (Florida, America) as a research associate in 2010. Since 2012, he has been a professor in the College of Plant Protection at Shenyang Agricultural University, China. His research interest is focused on the discovery of bioactive molecules from the secondary metabolites produced by microorganisms.