Prof. Ke Lan received a BS and an MS from Chongqing Medical University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He obtained his PhD from Central South University Xiangya Medical School in 2001 and received postdoctoral training from 2002 to 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Prof. Lan is the director of the State Key Laboratory of Virology and the director of the Animal Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory/Animal Experiment Center of Wuhan University. He serves as the executive editor of Cell Insight, an editorial board member of the Journal of Virology, and an associate editor of several journals. He is mainly engaged in the study of infection and pathogenic mechanism of oncogenic herpesviruses and important emerging viruses. His team is one of the first teams to identify SARS-CoV-2.