Wei-Cheng Yuan is a Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study, Chengdu University. He achieved his Bachelor’s degree in Organic Chemistry at Sichuan University in 1998, and earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. After his postdoctoral studies at Colorado State University, he became a Researcher at the Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2007. He was the Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Chiral Drugs (2010–2022). He was a Member of the Academic Committee, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas include organic methodology research; asymmetric catalysis; chiral drug synthesis.