SUN Qiang is a professor and doctoral supervisor, currently the Director of the Non-Human Primate Research Platform at the Institute of Neuroscience/Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a standing member of the Professional Committee for Non-Human Primate Experimental Animals at the Chinese Association for Laboratory Animal Science.

His work has been dedicated to the management of experimental animals, the construction of model animals, and the development of related technologies. To address the challenges of mosaicism, off-target effects, complex genetic manipulation, heterogeneous genetic backgrounds, and extended breeding times in the construction of non-human primate model animals, he led the establishment of somatic cell cloning technology for non-human primates, a first in the international arena (Cell 2018). Further utilizing this technology, he successfully developed the world's first batch of BMAL1 gene knockout cloned monkeys with circadian rhythm disorders (Natl Sci Rev 2019b).