Dr. Zijian Guo is a professor of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the director of the Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center of Nanjing University. His research focuses on the chemical biology of metals and metallodrugs including the metal-based anticancer complexes and their targeted delivery, the fluorescent sensors for bio-metals, and the role of metals in immunology. He serves as editorial/advisory board members of several international journals, and was appointed as the editor-in-chief of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, a new journal jointed launched by the American Chemical Society and Nanjing University. He was the winner of the Luigi Sacconi Medal of Italian Chemical Society in 2016 and the Outstanding Achievement Award of Asian Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry in 2020. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).