Dr. Lijun Hu is an Associate Research Fellow and Graduate Supervisor at the School of Pharmacy and the State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Molecules and Druggability Assessment, Jinan University. He received his Ph.D. in Natural Medicinal Chemistry from China Pharmaceutical University in 2018, during which he conducted joint research at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Southern University of Science and Technology. After completing his postdoctoral research at Jinan University in 2020, he joined the faculty in 2021. Dr. Hu’s research focuses on the biomimetic total synthesis and structural modification of bioactive natural products, aiming to translate natural product chemistry into innovative drug discovery. He has investigated bioactive compounds from traditional medicinal plants, leading to the discovery of multiple promising leads with antiviral, antifungal, and neurogenic activities, two of which have advanced into candidate drug development. To date, Dr. Hu has published 29 SCI-indexed papers in leading journals such as Angew Chem Int Ed, J Med Chem Org Let, Org Chem Front, and Chin Chem Lett. Through his work, Dr. Hu seeks to bridge natural product chemistry and medicinal chemistry, harnessing the structural diversity of natural compounds to discover and develop novel therapeutic agents.