NING Guang is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, tenure Professor of Ruijin Hospital. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and “Changjiang” Professor. He is currently president of Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and director of the Shanghai Institute of Endocrine & Metabolic Diseases. He is former Chair of the Chinese Society for Clinical Endocrinologists (2013-2019), president of the Chinese Endocrine Society (2008-2012). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Diabetes. 

He has been working in the field of endocrine & metabolic diseases for decades and has published over 500 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, JAMA, Nat Cell Biol, J Am Coll Cardiol, and Nat Med. He is the 4-time winner of the National Science and Technical Progress Award (2nd class) in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2017 (ranking first place twice). He is the winner of Shulan Medicine Award (2017), Chinese Physician Award (2014), Wu Jieping Medicine Innovation Prize, Bethune Good Doctor, International Endocrinology Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Diabetes Association and Ministry of Health, Yutaka Seino Outstanding Leadership Award from the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes, and Honorary Fellowship Award from the American College of Cardiology.