Professor Yuelong Shu is Executive Director, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Dr. Shu obtained his PhD degree in 1998 at the Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. He carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute of Gene Therapy, Mount Sinai Medical School (1998–1999), and in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology Medical School, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (1999–2002).