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         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. He is the recipient of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and XPLORER PRIZE. His work aims at gut microbiota, their microbial enzymes and their impact on metabolic diseases. In short, he pioneers a new theory of "cross-kingdom regulation of host homeostasis by gut microbial enzymes". The research results include the following: proposing a new concept of “microbial-host isozymes”; revealing a novel bile acid modification type and elucidating the role of microbial bile acid converting enzymes in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); uncovering a nicotine-degrading gut bacterium and its protective role in NASH. He has published more than 30 SCI papers in Cell (2024), Science (2023), Nature (2022), and other journals, among which, 9 papers are highly cited papers, one paper is picked up by F1000Research and 11 papers are highlighted and by internationally recognized scholars in the field. He is also invited to serve on the editorial board of Cell Metabolism. He has obtained Top 10 Chinese life scientific advances, Ten major scientific and technological progress of China's colleges and Universities, First prize of Beijing Science and Technology (the first finisher), China Youth Science and Technology Award and C.C. Tan Life Science Awards. He is supported by Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and State Key Program of National Natural Science of China.