Prof. Ke Lan earned his M.D. from Chongqing Medical University in 1994 and his Ph.D. from Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, in 2001. He completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, he joined the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a Principal Investigator. In 2017, he moved to Wuhan University, where he has served as Director of the State Key Laboratory of Virology. Dr. Lan’s research has long focused on viral infection mechanisms and pathogenesis—particularly of herpesviruses and emerging viruses. He has authored or co-authored over 170 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals, including J Virol, PLoS Pathog, PNAS, Cell Host Microbe, Sci Adv, Nature, NEJM, Scince Transl Med, Mol Cell, etc. He currently serves as the president of Chinese Society of Virology, as a member of the Editorial Board of J Virol and Viruses, as Associate Editor of Virologica Sinica, and as Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cell Insight.