Song Baoliang, male, of Han ethnicity, was born in January 1975. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party and holds a doctoral degree. He serves as a Standing Committee Member of the Party Committee and Executive Vice President of Wuhan University, as well as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He assists the president in handling the university's daily administrative work and is responsible for undergraduate admissions and teaching, graduate education and degree programs, sports, and auditing. He oversees the Undergraduate School, Graduate School, and the Sports Department, and assists the president in managing the Audit Office.

He coordinates activities within the School of Science and serves as a liaison with the School of Physics and Technology, Taikang Medical School (School of Basic Medical Sciences), and Hongyi School.

Song has long been dedicated to cholesterol metabolism research, achieving a series of significant original discoveries: elucidating the molecular pathway of intestinal cholesterol absorption, revealing a regulatory pathway for cholesterol synthesis, discovering a novel intracellular cholesterol transport route, and identifying new cholesterol-modifying proteins.

These achievements have provided valuable insights and theoretical foundations for the development of lipid-lowering drugs. He has published over 60 papers as a corresponding author in renowned journals such as Nature, Science, and Cell, with his work has been recognized three times among the "Top 10 Advances in Chinese Life Sciences".

Song has received several honors, including the Tan Kah Kee Science Award, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, the Scientific Exploration Award, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Award.

Song also serves as the president of the Chinese Society for Cell Biology and the chair of the Expert Group for the National Natural Science Foundation's major research program on "Spatiotemporal Network Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism".