**Wenhan Lin**

Wenhan Lin received his BS at the Department of Chemistry at Wenzhou University in 1982. He received the MS and PhD degrees during 1985–1990 from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied phytochemistry including the isolation and structural characterization of bioactive natural products from medicinal plants. Then, he accepted a position for the postdoctoral fellowship (1990–1992) at Beijing Medical University (Medical Health Center, Peking University). After he was promoted as an associate professor at the same university in 1993, he visited the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as a gues<sup>t</sup> researcher for one year (1993), Toho University of Japan as an oversea special researcher (1994), San Paolo University of Brazil as a gues<sup>t</sup> researcher (1995), and Duesseldorf University of Germany as a visiting professor (2000–2001). From 1996 until now, he has been a full professor of medicinal chemistry at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Peking University. For the last two decades, his research topic mainly focuses on the bioactive and structurally novel metabolites derived from marine organisms (sponges and corals), and their associated microorganisms. He has published around 350 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, and applied more than 20 patents.
