Weiwei Xue is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Chongqing University. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry (2009) and a PhD in cheminfor-matics (2014) from Lanzhou University. He worked as a visiting scholar in the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washing-ton (2019). The research in Dr Xue’s lab is focused on constructing therapeutic-related databases and tools, and developing methods combining artificial intelligence and molecular modelling approaches to design innovative small molecules or protein binders against molecular targets of complex diseases, including neurological and psychiatric disorders, viral infection and cancer. He has published > 100 peer-reviewed papers in the area of bioinformatics and computational drug and protein design.