Tianyu Zhang is a professor and principal investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China. He has a BS in biology (1999, Capital Normal University, China), an MS in bioengineering (2022, Capital Normal University, China), and a PhD in microbiology and biochemical pharmacy (2005, The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and The Peking Union Medical College, China). He is a member of the American Thoracic Society and the American Society for Microbiology. His research interests include the mechanisms of drug actions and mycobacterial drug resistance as well as the development of antituberculosis drugs/regimens.