Dr. Gang Chen is the director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Individualized Prevention and Treatment of Encephalopathy at Jinan University, the director of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory of Brain-Peripheral Homeostasis and Health Regulation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the deputy director of the Clinical and Translational Institute of Mental Disorders, and a professor at the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers University in United States and was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province. 

He is engaged in the research of new advantages, new targets, targeted synergistic substances and their transformation in the personalized prevention and treatment of emotional and cognitive disorders in traditional Chinese medicine. The relevant results have been invited to report at more than 20 overseas conferences such as the United States Neuroscience Congress and the International Society of Behavioral and Neurogenetics (IBANGS) annual meeting, and more than 30 SCI papers of traditional Chinese medicine represented by rapid antidepressant research such as Yueju pills have been published. It has been approved to preside over more than 10 projects such as the National Key R&D Program. He is also the founding chairman of the Special Committee on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Brain Homeostasis Regulation of the Chinese Physiological Society, the chairman of the Guangzhou Association for the Promotion of Industry-University-Research in Encephalopathy Traditional Chinese Medicine, the executive director of the Basic Theory Branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine, and the member committee member and chairman of the IBANGS Executive Committee.