Wei Shen received a B.S. degree in animal science from Laiyang Agricultural College, Qingdao, China, in 1998, an M.S. degree in animal genetic breeding and reproduction from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China, in 2001, and a Ph.D. degree in Animal Genetic Breeding, from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, China. He was a postdoctoral fellow both in cell biology from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2006, and in animal science from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in 2010. He is currently working at Qingdao Agricultural University with the Department of College of Life Sciences, Qingdao, China. His research interests include animal science, animal genetic breeding and propagation, germ cell genesis, and germ stem cells and animal transgenic technology.