Qiang Xiao was born in Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of China, in 1975. He obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University with Prof. Yufen Zhao in 2003. From 2004 to 2005, he worked as a research fellow with Prof. Tom Brown at the University of Southampton, UK. Presently, he serves as the director of both Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry in Jiangxi Province and Institute of Organic Chemistry in Jiangxi Science & Technology University. His research mainly focuses on nucleoside chemistry and new heterocycle synthetic methodologies.