Qing-Jun Meng is a Professor of Chronobiology and an Arthritis Research UK (ARUK) Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, the University of Manchester. He is also the Academic Lead of the Biosciences International Summer School, BIO-SISS. In 2009, Qing-Jun was awarded a MRC Career Development Award Fellowship on clocks and age-related diseases. In 2015, he was awarded an ARUK Senior Research Fellowship to continue his work into the roles of circadian clocks in health and disease of the musculoskeletal system. Qing-Jun's research profile has been featured on the MRC Insight magazine and the Arthritis Research UK website. He was recently interviewed by the BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio 5, BBC Radio Manchester and That's Manchester television.