Hongping Chen is currently the Vice Dean of the Basic Medical College of Nanchang University, a professor and doctoral supervisor, the president of Jiangxi Anatomy Society, and the president of Jiangxi Anatomy Society. He received his B.S. degree in Animal Medicine from Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China, in 2000, and his M.S. degree in Basic Veterinary Medicine from Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China, in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, in 2006, and his postdoctoral degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine in 2013. His research interests include the role of TLR4 signaling in tumors and other diseases, nutrition, cancer, and so on. He was awarded the third prize of Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science and has had more than 20 papers published in the influential SCI journals Experimental Neurology, Oncogene, Neurochemical Research, and Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy as the first author or corresponding author.