Dr. Yuzhuo Wang has a dual appointment as a Senior Research Scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and Distinguished Scientist at BC Cancer. He is also the Founder of the Living Tumor Laboratory and a Professor at the Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC. Dr. Wang completed his Ph.D. at the University of Hong Kong and joined Dr. Gerald R. Cunha at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as a postdoctoral fellow in 1997. Dr. Wang has received numerous awards for his academic achievements in cancer research, such as the Prostate Cancer Foundation Research Award (2007), the Translation Research Award from Roche (2009), the Overseas Chinese Scholars Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2009), the Innovative Scholar Award from the International Cancer Alliance for Research and Education (ICARE), US (2010), an UBC Faculty of Medicine Distinguished Achievement Award (2011), and five Department of Urologic Sciences Research Teaching Excellence Awards (2013, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021), and two PCF Challenge Awards (US) (2020, 2021). Notably, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS) in 2018.