Xu Fuzhou is a Research Professor and the Deputy Director of the Department of High Technology Research on Animal Bioproducts at the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of agricultural and Forestry Sciences. His research interests are molecular biology and immunology of pathogenic bacteria in livestock and poultry. He has served as the principal investigator of projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 60 research papers and obtained 12 national invention patents.