Changtao Jiang, Ph.D., is a tenured full professor at Peking University, serving as the chair of Department of Immunology and the deputy dean of the School of Basic Medical Sciences. His work aims at gut microbiota and their impacts on host metabolism. He proposed a novel theory of “Gut microbiota-derived enzymes and metabolites cross-species modulate host metabolic homeostasis and dysregulation”. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in Science, Nature, Cell and other journals, among which, 13 papers are highly cited papers, one paper is picked up by F1000Research and 11 papers are highlighted and internationally recognized by scholars in the field. He is also invited as the editorial board of Cell Metabolism. He has obtained Top 10 Chinese life scientific advances (2024 and 2023), Ten major scientific and technological progress of China’s colleges and Universities (2023), First prize of Beijing Science and Technology (the first finisher) and XPLORER PRIZE.