Honglun Wang is a researcher at the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the School of Chemistry, Biology and Physics of Yantai University in 2001 with a major in biochemistry. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. He was a visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2009. He was a teaching assistant and associate researcher at the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He won the Lu Jiaxi Young Talent Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 and the President's Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. He is a member of the All-China Youth Federation. He is also a member of the first Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.