Dr. Dong is a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing, Tianjin University, and a Principle Investigator of the State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology. He joined Tianjin University in 2019. His research group focuses on the fields of Chemical and Synthetic Biology, with research interests ranging from natural product biosynthesis, novel enzymatic reactions, biocatalysts development, and mechanistic studies on metalloproteins to mechanism-based inhibitor design and synthesis for drug discovery. He has published multiple papers in Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew.Chem.Int.Ed., ACS Catalysis, et al.