Qian Tan obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Nanjing Railway Medical College in 1984 and 1992, respectively. He received his Doctoral degree from the Second Military Medical University in 2003, and joined Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School in the same year. He visited and studied in Leipzig St. George Hospital in German in 2005, and MD Anderson cancer center and Duke university in the United States in 2008. In 2005, he was appointed as the Director of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. His research interests lie in the fields of plastic and reconstructive surgery, aesthetic surgery, burn therapy, with a particular focus on wound healing.