Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering,  the Ministry of Education (MEE), which is located in Jilin University, was established under the authority of the Ministry of Education in 1999. Prof. Yan Feng is the director of  laboratory and Prof., Academician, Zhixin Wang is the director of laboratory Academic Committee. The general mission of the laboratory is to address the basic research and the critical problems of potential applications in the frontier of molecular enzymology and enzyme engineering at laboratory level. Over the last five years, the laboratory has exhibited its excellence in the field of molecular enzymology and engineering. It has won worldwide recognition in the corresponding field through achievements in research, attendance of academic conferences and communication nationwide and internationally.

      The laboratory has its expertise in biochemistry and molecular biology and has since 2000 received financial support from the state “211 program”, “985 program” and industries. It has been in charge of a variety of state key projects and projects from the programs issued by the Ministry of Science & Technique, the Ministry of Education, provincial or municipal governments. The lab is authorized by the Ministry of Education to carry out the postgraduate education programs leading to master and doctoral degree as well as post-doctoral training. Until now, a great number of postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars have completed their studies or training from the laboratory. Fruitful progress has led the lab obtain important practical advances with emphases in molecular evolution of enzyme, analysis of enzyme structure & function, functional genomics and novel technologies for enzyme engineering etc.. Over 100 research papers have been published in journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry etc. Being chief editors, members of this lab have also published 4 books and 1 graduate text book.

On this rapid developing foundation, driven by a desire to find the molecular explanation for basic biological phenomena, the laboratory's interests have widened and grown to embrace

an ever-increasing diversity of areas such as genomics, proteomics and bioinform--aticsetc. Interdisciplinary research is not only possible, but expected. Scient-sts here have established broad collabor-ations with related institutions in the Unit-ed States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and France etc. Meanwhile, the laboratory is calling talented young scie-ntists from all over the world to joint the lab or make collaboration of any kind.