7 January 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Veterinary Sciences

Veterinary Sciences (ISSN: 2306-7381) is pleased to announce the addition of the following 20 researchers who have been added to our 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board. Please join us in congratulating them on becoming part of the journal’s community!

Name: Dr. Liangming Chen
Affiliation: Institute of Synthetic Biology; Center for Synthetic Genomics, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518107, China
Interests: aquatic immunization and control (synthetic biology; molecular virology; molecular immunology)

Name: Dr. Xinyu Miao
Affiliations: 1 College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 2 Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China; 3 Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 4 Jiangsu Research Centre of Engineering and Technology for Prevention and Control of Poultry Disease, Yangzhou 225009, China; 5 College of Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Interests: epidemiology, pathogenicity and immune mechanism of avian influenza virus; antiviral mechanism and application of new nanozymes

Name: Dr. Kaituo Liu
Affiliations: 1 Key Laboratory of Avian Bioproducts Development, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 2 Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 3 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 4 Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Homepage: https://nky.yzu.edu.cn/info/1022/1511.htm
Interests: influenza; programed cell death; apoptosis; pyroptosis; necroptosis

Name: Dr. Xingping Chen
Affiliation: Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, Jiangxi Province Key Innovation Center of Integration in Production and Education for High-Quality and Safe Livestock and Poultry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
Homepage: https://dongk.jxau.edu.cn/info/1038/1048.htm
Interests: piglets nutrition and metabolism; intestinal development and health; none-coding RNAs; extra-cellular vesicles (EVs)

Name: Prof. Dr. Gabriel Augusto Marques Rossi
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University Vila Velha (UVV), Av. Comissário José Dantas de Melo, n.21, Vila Velha 29102-920, ES, Brazil
Homepage: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; ESBL; genomics; Escherichia coli; Staphylococcus

Name: Dr. Gamal Wareth
Affiliation: Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Germany
Homepage: https://www.fli.de/de/institute/institut-fuer-bakterielle-infektionen-und-zoonosen-ibiz/wissenschaftlerinnen/pd-dr-g-wareth/
Interests: brucellosis, acinetobacter baumannii, klebsiella pneumoniea, antimicrobial resistance bacterial zoonoses; anthrax 

Name: Prof. Dr. Peter Hristov
Affiliation: Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Homepage: http://www.iber.bas.bg/?q=en/user/77
Interests: animals; biodiversity; genetics; phylogeny

Name: Dr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad
Affiliation:
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutritional Physiology and Metabolic Process, National Engineering Laboratory for Pollution Control and Waste Utilization in Livestock and Poultry Production, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Interests: pig; livestock production; immunity; microbiome; metabolome

Name: Dr. Dhananjay Yadav
Affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
Homepage: https://homep.yu.ac.kr/en/academic/index.php?c=academic_02_a_02
Interests: diabetes; immunology; autoimmune disease; cancer

Name: Prof. Dr. Hongzhuan Wu
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36104, USA
Homepage: https://www.alasu.edu/faculty/HongzhuanWu.php
Interests: zoonoses; bird flu virus; vaccine; bioreactors

Name: Dr. Ana Patrícia Fontes-Sousa
Affiliation: Department of Immuno-Physiology and Pharmacology, Veterinary Hospital of the University of Porto—UPVET, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto (ICBAS-UP), 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Homepage: https://sigarra.up.pt/icbas/en/func_geral.formview?p_codigo=454572
Interests: veterinary cardiology; mitral valve disease; cardiac biomarkers; pulmonary hypertension; cardiovascular pharmacology; echocardiography; heartworm disease

Name: Dr. Jidong Xu
Affiliations: 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; 2 Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Homepage: https://person.zju.edu.cn/0619632
Interests: mechanisms of animal viral infection and their biosecurity prevention and control

 
Name: Dr. Yuan Li
Affiliations: 1 College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China; 2 Beijing Key Laboratory of Detection Technology for Animal Derived Food Safety, Beijing Laboratory for Food Quality and Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Homepage: https://cast.zafu.edu.cn/info/1075/2382.htm
Interests: veterinary immunology; disease prevention; nano-adjuvants; rapid detection technologies

Name: Dr. Xiaolong Lu
Affiliations: 1 Key Laboratory of Avian Bioproducts Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China; 2 Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China; 3 Jiangsu Interdisciplinary Center for Zoonoses and Biosafety, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China; 4 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China; 5 Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
Homepage: https://nky.yzu.edu.cn/info/1022/1921.htm
Interests: epidemic prevention and control of waterfowl pathogens and their pathogenic mechanisms

Name: Dr. Penggang Liu
Affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Homepage: http://teacher.yzu.edu.cn/LPG/zh_CN/index.htm
Interests: animal reproductive development; pathogenic mechanisms

Name: Dr. Xiujuan Zhou
Affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Homepage: https://cast.zafu.edu.cn/info/1305/5318.htm
Interests: fishery vaccines and the regulatory mechanism of cellular immunity in aquatic animals

Name: Dr. Ji Wang
Affiliations: 1 Hunan Engineering Research Center of Livestock and Poultry Health Care, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China; 2 Animal Nutritional Genome and Germplasm Innovation Research Center, College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
Homepage: https://dwyxy.hunau.edu.cn/szll/lcsyx/
Interests: animal metabolic diseases; toxicosis; mycotoxin; gut microbiota; canine and feline internal medicine
 

Name: Dr. Ziyao Zhou
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Homepage: https://dyy.sicau.edu.cn/info/1206/14847.htm
Interests: veterinary dentistry; computer-aided design; personalized medicine

Name: Dr. Wanglong Zheng
Affiliations: 1 College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 2 Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou 225009, China; 3 Comparative Medicine Research Institute, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; 4 Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Homepage: http://teacher.yzu.edu.cn/ZWL/en/yjfx/445427/content/3333.htm
Interests: infection and immunity; innate immune signaling; comparative immunology; anti-viral immunity

Name: Dr. Lei Deng
Affiliation: Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: gut microbiota; host-pathogen interactions

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