**About the Editor**

**Dehai Li**

Dehai Li is a professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China. He received his Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Shandong University in 2002 and obtained his Doctor of Medicine in 2007 from Ocean University of China. After that, he completed his postdoctoral research with Professor Raymond J Andersen at the University of British Columbia from 2007 to 2009. From 2014 to 2015, he moved to Professor Yi Tang's lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a visiting scientist. Currently, his research is focused on marine natural products, including: (1) isolation and identification of fungi and actinomycete strains from various marine samples; (2) searching for novel bioactive secondary metabolites from marine-derived microorganisms; (3) chemical synthesis and biosynthesis of natural products. In the past 15 years, his group has isolated over 5000 microorganism strains from marine environments and discovered more than 1000 new structures. He has published over 160 papers and has had 10 patents authorized.
