Prof. Chenli Liu is a Pengcheng Distinguished Professor and President of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Founding Directors of State Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, National Industrial Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing (NIICB), and Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology (iSynBio), the Chief scientist of Chinese Academy of Sciences Synthetic Cell Initiative, and National Natural Science Foundation of China Basic Science Center on Synthetic Cell, the co-founder and coordinator of SynCell Asia Initiative. Liu also serves as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Synthetic Biology Journal (Chinese). His lab is focused on bringing together concepts and approaches from synthetic biology together with quantitative biology. Current research interest includes synthesizing a cellular life from bottom up and engineering bacteria for solid tumor therapy.