Hongbing Chen, Ph.D,Professor.Sino-German Joint Research Institute,State Key laboratory of Food Science and Resources,Nanchang University, China. A member of National Special Support Program for High-level Personnel Recruitment. Group leader of innovation team on food allergy in key areas of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. Visiting scientist in Okayama University, Japan, Wageningen University, the Netherlands and the University of Georgia, USA. Member of FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergen. Member of the Expert Advisory Committee of China National Codex Committee. Vice Director of Allergy Medicine Committee of Chinese Research Hospital Association.General secretary of Jiangxi Society of Food Science and Technology.

Professor Chen’s  Research focus on food allergy and celiac disease. His work filled the gaps in epidemiological data of celiac disease in China. Moreover, his works have directly promoted the establishment of Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Food Allergy, Jiangxi Province Food Engineering Research Center of Special Medical Purposes Intended for Allergic Population and Research Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Celiac Disease in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous. Additionally, he is (co)author more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers on food allergy, where more than 250 papers were cited by SCI.