Professor CHEN Xing is currently Changjiang Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Biology and dean of the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University. He completed his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2002 and his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, under the guidance of Professor Carolyn Bertozzi and Professor Alex Zettl. He then joined the laboratory of Professor Timothy Springer at Harvard Medical School as a LSRF postdoctoral fellow, where his research focused on structural immunology. Professor Chen started as an assistant professor of chemistry at Peking University in 2010 and was promoted directly to full professor with tenure in 2016. He is also affiliated with the Center for Life Science (CLS) and the Synthetic and Functional Biomolecule Center (SFBC) of Peking University. Some of his recent awards include the Xplore Prize (2010), the Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award (2020), the OKeanos-CAPA Senior Investigator Award at the Chemical and Biology Interface (2019), the CCS-RSC Young Chemist Award (2018), the ACS David Y. Gin New Investigator Award (2016), the IGO Young Glycoscientist Award (2015), and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014). His current research interest focuses on chemical glycobiology.