Lixin Zhu, PhD degree in biochemistry, from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Did postdoc at UC Berkeley, then Assistant Professor, tenure track, at SUNY Buffalo. Currently Associate Professor at the Six Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. Led the first sequencing research on the gut microbiome of NAFLD, cited 1500+ times; led the first sequencing research on the gut microbiome of functional constipation. Made other contributions on the pathophysiology of NAFLD, IBD, IBS, and GI infection of the SARS-CoV-2, Published as correspondence author at Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, Gastroenterology, Gut, Hepatology, Annual Reviews of Physiology, and Journal of Pathology.