<p>Dr. Renjie Chai, Ph.D., Chief Professor of Southeast University, Executive Dean of Advanced Institute for Life and Health, double-hired professor of Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Zhongda Hospital. He has been selected as Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars program of the Ministry of Education, Chief Scientist of National Key Research and Development Program, Thousand Young Talents, National Natural Science Foundation Excellent Young Scholars and other talent programs. He has undertaken 10 national major/key projects, including National Key R&D Program of China, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China, et. al. He has long standing research interests in the repair and functional regeneration of inner ear hair cell/ spiral ganglion neuron through gene therapy and stem therapy, thus, to reestablish the structure of inner ear and recover the hearing loss. The relative work has been published on The Lancet (2x), Cell (2x), Advanced Materials, Nature Cell Biology, Nature communications, Sciences Advances, Advanced Science, PNAS, Autophagy and so on. In the recent years, I have published 195 SCI papers as (co-)corresponding authors (Total impact factors 2655.78; IF>30, 15 articles; IF 10-30, 95 articles); among which 4 articles were recommended by Faculty1000 prime, 1 article was selected as Cell Best of 2020, 15 articles were selected as ESI high citation paper, 2 articles were selected as ESI hot paper. The overall citation is over 8000 times, and the h-Index is 56. He also published three scientific books as the chief editor, and won national/ministerial/provincial scientific awards for 15 times, including the National Award for Excellence in Innovation, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Second prize of China Medical Science and Technology Award, the first prize of Ministry of Education Natural Science Award and so on. The detailed information are shown below.</p>