Qing Yang, Principal Investigator, Doctoral Advisor, is an adjunct professor of the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen and the Institute of Plant Protection,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Dalian University of Technology. She is a recipient of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. She has been engaged in the research of molecular targets of green pesticides for a long time, and  has been studying the key enzymes of chitin synthesis, degradation and modification of chitin in pathogenic bacteria and harmful insects using structural biology and chemical biology, and exploring new human/animal-safe pesticide molecular targets and developing agrochemical products.

Professor Yang is the Chairwoman of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the deputy director of the Professional Committee of Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Chinese Entomological Society. She has presided over the key projects of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China and the sub-projects of National Key Research and Development Program. Professor Yang has published more than 100 SCI papers, including corresponding authorship in ACS Catalysis, Biotechnology Advances, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, etc. She has also published one monograph in English.