**About the Editor**

## **Yan-Zhong Chang**

Yan-Zhong Chang, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Director of Laboratory of Molecular Iron Metabolism and Department of Physiology at Hebei Normal University. He obtained his PhD degree in Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Visiting Professor studying the regulation of brain iron metabolism in Dr. Tracey Rouault's Lab, NICHD. In 2003, Professor Chang founded the Lab of Molecular Iron Metabolism at Hebei Normal University. The major research field focuses on the mechanisms of iron metabolism; the mechanisms and treatment of iron misregulation and redox imbalance in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, mental and emotional disorders as well as heart and motor system diseases; and the preparation and safety evaluation of targeted nanomedicines. Yan-Zhong has led and completed 23 national and provincial fund projects. Currently, he is leading one national fund and two provincial fund projects. To date, as the first author or corresponding author, Prof. Chang has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and these papers have had more than 5000 citations with an H-index of 40. He was the Editor of 'Brain Iron Metabolism and CNS Diseases', published by Springer (2019). He won the First (2019), Second (2016) and Third (2013) Grade Awards for Natural Science of Hebei Provence.
