Professor Sun Qiang has been appointed as a Senior Scientist of our institute for a five-year term, from February 2026 to January 2031. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and a Leading Young and Middle-Aged Scientific and Technological Innovator of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has successively been awarded the 2018 Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award, the 2019 Special Government Allowance of the State Council, the 2020 WuXi AppTec Life Chemistry Research Award - Scholar Award, and the First Prize of the 2022 Shanghai Natural Science Award. At present, he serves as a Director of the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Science, a Standing Director of its Primate Laboratory Animal Professional Committee, and a Director of the Shanghai Association for Laboratory Animal Science.

Professor Sun Qiang and his team have long focused on the reproductive physiology of non-human primates, the construction of animal models, the optimization of key technologies, and the standardized management of laboratory animals. The team generated China’s first test-tube cynomolgus monkeys, and constructed a variety of laboratory monkey disease models based on lentiviral transfection and gene editing technologies. They established a technology for accelerating the sexual maturation of laboratory monkeys with testicular xenotransplantation and hormone injection as the core, and pioneered the generation of somatic cell cloned monkeys and cynomolgus monkeys with high-proportion embryonic stem cell chimerism worldwide. In the meantime, the team has participated in the high-precision annotation of the rhesus monkey and cynomolgus monkey genomes. Professor Sun Qiang has also long been committed to science communication, and has written more than 100 popular science articles on laboratory animals in his spare time. Relevant research achievements have been published in Nature, Cell, Cell Research and other renowned academic journals.