Yu-Qing Zhang is a professor at the Applied Biological Department and the Silk Biotechnology Lab at Soochow University, P. R. China since November 2007. He received his PhD in Technology of Bioscience from Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan in 2005. His research interests focus on characterizing mechanical and biological properties and developing new uses of silk biomaterial, in particular, applications of silk protein in biomedical materials, biomedicines, daily fine chemicals or cosmetics. Currently, he has been appointed as a research scientist of the China Agriculture Research System (CARS) by the Agriculture Ministry of China since 2008.