Dr. Lin Zhaoyu, from 2006 to 2012, studied for a doctoral degree at the Institute of Model Animals, Nanjing University, under the tutelage of Professor Gao Xiang, and conducted a three-year visiting scholar research at Washington University in St. Louis. After returning to China, he conducted postdoctoral research in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University from 2012 to 2013; in 2014, and he joined the Institute of Model Animals as an associate researcher; in 2019, he was employed as an associate professor at Nanjing University and a researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Medical Biotechnology.