YAN Nieng received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Biological Science and Technology at Tsinghua University in 2000 and Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University in 2004, where she continued her postdoctoral research. She joined School of Medicine, Tsinghua University as a professor in 2007. Ten years later, in 2017, she was recruited back by Princeton University and became the inaugural Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology. In 2022, Yan Nieng served as the Founding President of Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research & Translation (SMART). In 2023, she served as the Director of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL). YAN Nieng’s primary research interest has been in the structural and mechanistic investigation of membrane transport proteins that are of tremendous physiological, pathophysiological, and pharmaceutical significance. Her achievements have won her numerous accolades, including the 2015 Beverley & Raymond Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, the 2019 Weizmann Women & Science Award, and the 2021 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award by the Biophysical Society. She was elected as an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2019 and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.