Prof. Xiaoguang Lei is a permanent full professor and a doctoral supervisor at the School of Chemistry, Peking University, and is a senior researcher at the Peking University-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences. He received his PhD (Organic Synthetic Chemistry) from Boston University and his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Peking University. He won the Shulan Medical Youth Award in 2019 and the Beijing “Outstanding Young Scientist” Program in 2018. His research fields are chemical biology, natural product synthesis, synthetic biology, and innovative drug development.