Dr. Weina Li is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, China. She received her Ph.D. under the supervision of academician Tianwei Tan, focusing on recombinant collagen biomaterials specializing in biosynthesis and enzyme stabilization engineering. Her current research centers on functional hydrogel fabrication, protein-based drug delivery carriers, biomedical wound dressing materials, and AI-assisted protein engineering. She has hosted multiple provincial and national research projects, published dozens of SCI papers in top journals, and supervised many master and doctoral students. She has also led teams to win international iGEM Gold Awards. Dr. Li serves as a reviewer for numerous Q1 journals in biomaterials and pharmaceutics. Now she acts as Guest Editor of the Special Issue Functional Gels in Drug Delivery Systems in Gels, devoting herself to promoting high-quality research on biomedical gel materials.