Dr. Ling-juan Zhang is a full professor at the state key lab of cellular stress biology, school of Pharmaceutical Science, Xiamen University. She received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Oregon State University and post-graduate training at the Department of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego, where she continued as a Project Scientist and directed an NIH RO1 project before coming back to China. Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on the innate immune mechanisms of skin host defense against bacterial infection as well as pathogenesis inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis. Her ground-breaking research discovered the innate immune antimicrobial function of dermal fat and her research findings have been in prestigious journals including Science (2015), Immunity (2016 and 2019), and Science Translational Medicine (2021) with more than 2600 citations. Dr. Zhang has received several Chinese National and Fujian Province Young talent awards, and she has also been elected as a board member of prestigious societies including Chinese society of Skin Immunology, Chinese society of Investigative Dermatology and Society of Chinese Medicine Immunology Branch.