Fu-Min Zhang received M. S. from Lanzhou University in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Xuan Tian. After five years of research at the same university, he finished his Ph.D. degree at Lanzhou University working under the supervision of Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu in 2006. Subsequently he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Mayo Clinic with Professor Yuan-Ping Pang (2007–2008). He returned to the Lanzhou University as a lecturer and was then appointed as associate professor in 2009 and a full professor in 2014. Currently, he is interested in developing new strategies and methodologies for the synthesis of bioactive natural products and some medicinally important molecules.