Zhong Peng, PhD is currently a professor of animal infectious diseases and zoonosis at Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), Wuhan, China. He obtained his PhD and bachelor degrees at HZAU in 2018 and 2012, respectively. Between 03/2016 and 03/2018, he was a visiting PhD student in the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and before his appointment as a full-time professor in HZAU at 07/2023, he received his training as a postdoc at HZAU. Dr. Peng’s main research focuses on bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance. He serves as a Science Editor of the journal Animal Diseases, an Editorial Board member for Microbial Pathogenesis and The Chinese Journal of Infectious Control, as well as an Early-Career Editorial Board member for iMeta, The FASEB Journal, Science in One Health, and Animals and Zoonosis. Dr. Peng has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers with a role as the first author or the corresponding author. Several of these papers are published in high-quality journals such as Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Nature Communications, and The Lancet Microbe, etc. He has been elected as the winner of Animal Diseases Best Published Paper Award 2021 (2022), Young Veterinarian's Bursary Award for the 25th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress (2018), American Society for Microbiology Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award MEE (2018), etc.