Zhipeng Xu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing Medical University, also serving as vice dean of the Graduate School and deputy director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathogen Infection and Prevention Research. He is a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Youth Federation and the Jiangsu Provincial Youth Science and Technology Association, and has been a visiting scholar at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR Berghofer) in Australia. Prof. Xu has been selected for the National Major Talent Program and has received honors such as the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, the “Blue and Green Engineering” Outstanding Young Backbone Teacher Award, the “Outstanding Middle-aged and Young Teachers Support Program,” and the “Zhao Xibao Young Teacher Teaching Award.” He has also been recognized as a Tianyuan Young Scholar and an Outstanding Young Discipline Leader at Nanjing Medical University. His research centers on pathogen infection and offspring health, with emphasis on the immunological mechanisms of pathogen–host interactions. He has published extensively as first or corresponding author in Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports. He has led multiple research projects, including NSFC General and Youth Fund projects, the Jiangsu Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, the Jiangsu Natural Youth Fund, and major and general projects supported by Jiangsu higher education institutions.