State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology (LMB), established in November 1990, is jointly operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Tsinghua University and Peking University. The laboratory is comprised of three closely collaborating divisions: the Membrane Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Division at the Institute of Zoology of CAS, the Membrane Biophysics and Biotechnology Division at Tsinghua University and the Ion Channel and Receptor Molecular Biology Division at Peking University. 
　　After 21 years’ development, the laboratory has built up a high caliber research team, which includes a group of very active biologists at the national and international levels. Among them, there are three members of CAS or CAE, eleven recipients of the “National Outstanding Young Scholars”, two recipients of the “National One Thousand Distinguished Talents Program”, seven recipients of the “One Hundred Talents Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and four recipients of the “Chueng Kong Scholarship”. LBM now have 33 principal investigators working in multi-disciplinary biomembrane research fields, including cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, biophysics, immunology and membrane protein structure. Many principal investigators are on the editorial board of various international scientific journals.