Ping Jiang is the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Nanjing Agricultural University and Director of the Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology of the Ministry of Agriculture, China. He completed his Ph.D. at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Nanjing Agricultural University in 1989. He studied as a Visiting Scholar in Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, USA, during the period of 2000–2001, and in Ontario Veterinary College of University of Guelph in Canada in 1998. His research focuses on viral diseases of swine with special emphasis on porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, porcine circovirus type 2 associated diseases and pseudorabies, and on the mechanisms of immunity against these viruses. His research team has developed three vaccines that have been widely used for preventing and controlling swine diseases in China.