Weijun Ding received a B.S. degree in medicine from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, then got an M.S. degree in medicine from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and later acquired a Ph.D. degree in Chinese and Western Medicine from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China. His research interests include metabolic disease and behavioral neuroscience. He has 25 representative Science Citation Index Publications about metabolic disease and behavioral neuroscience.