Yonghong Liu obtained his BS and MS degrees from the Changchun College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jilin Province China. The, he went to Korea and received a PhD degree from the Pusan National University, Busan, Korea under the guidance of Professor Jee H. Jung. He undertook postdoctoral research with Nobutoshi Murakami at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, and Pedro Abreu at the New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, before returning to China to take a position as a senior scientist in 2006 at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is working as vice-director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica. He engaged in the discovery of new natural products and lead structures with bioactivity. He has focused on the isolation and structural elucidation of biologically active secondary metabolites from marine invertebrates and medicinal plants and their endosymbionts to develop new drugs with anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, and anti-hypertensive effects.