LÜ Longbao holds a graduate degree and is a professor. He currently serves as Director of the Laboratory Animal Center at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Executive Deputy Director of the National Non-human Primate Laboratory Animal Resource Center. He has been recognized as a CAS Key Technical Talent and a Yunnan Provincial Technological Innovation Talent.He has been appointed as Standing Director of the Seventh Council of the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Accreditation Assessor for Laboratory Animal Institutions of the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), Vice President of the Chinese Experimental Primatology Society, Committee Member of the Animal Welfare and Ethics Specialized Committee of the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Committee Member of the CAS Working Committee on Laboratory Animals, Vice Director of the Laboratory Animal Standardization Specialized Committee of the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Secretary-General of the Yunnan Laboratory Animal Science Association, and Standing Director of the Kunming Laboratory Animal Industry Association, among other positions. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Acta Laboratorium Animalis Scientia Sinica (Chinese Journal of Laboratory Animal Sciences), Chinese Journal of Comparative Medicine, and Laboratory Animal Science.

He has long been engaged in research on the basic biology and neurobiology of non-human primates, tree shrews, and rodents, as well as disease animal models, key techniques in animal experimentation, resource preservation and utilization, and the laboratory standardization of tree shrews. He has successfully developed inbred tree shrew strains to the seventh filial generation. He currently leads one national-level project and four provincial or ministerial-level projects. He has been granted fifteen authorized patents and has led or participated in the formulation of two national standards, nine local standards, five industry standards, and four group standards. He has published more than seventy papers in Chinese and English and has led or contributed to twelve books, including Comparative Atlas of Brain Trauma, Encyclopedia of China, Encyclopedia of Medical Sciences: Laboratory Animal Science, and Basic Biology and Disease Models of Tree Shrews.