Shuai Zhu,¹ Qiang Wang<sup>1,2,*,**

1</sup>State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
²Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

^*Correspondence: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China. E-mail: qwang2012@njmu.edu.cn
^**Dr. Qiang Wang is a Professor at Nanjing Medical University. He received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, mentored by Prof. Qing-Yuan Sun. He completed his post-doctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, supervised by Prof. Kelle Moley and Tim Schedl. He became an independent faculty member of State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine since 2012. Dr. Wang works on molecular control of oocyte development, as well as mechanisms through which maternal environment influences oocyte quality and offspring health. Dr. Wang's group has recently revealed the metabolic framework that supports in vivo oocyte maturation, and discovered that embryonic defects induced by maternal obesity in mice derive from Stella insufficiency in oocytes. His major findings have been published in Nature Genetics, Molecular cell, and Aging Cell.