Congratulations to Shuai Chen, from Carol MacKintosh's group, who will soon be taking up a PI position at the Model Animal Research Center (MARC), Medical School of Nanjing University, one of the top universities in China. In the last decade MARC has been taking a leading role in disease research, and it is one of the fifteen institutions in the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) to systemically generate and phenotype knockout mice. Nanjing, meaning ‘south capital', was one of the earliest established cities in China and has a history of more than 2, 500 years. The city is on the Yangtze River, about 160 miles away from Shanghai.

Shuai has exciting research plans for the future, and we wish him all the best.