Dr. Yong Li is a Professor (Conjoint) in the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; a Principal Scientific Officer at St George Hospital,  the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD); and Director of the Cancer Research Laboratory at the Cancer Care Centre. He is an established cancer researcher, with expertise in cancer biomarker discovery, cancer biology, radiation biology, targeted cancer therapy, and cancer metastasis. He obtained his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, in 2000. He has a total of 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has presented 150 conference abstracts at international and national conferences. Notably, he was awarded the best Biomedical Research Award–NHMRC Achievement Award in 2010. Dr Li currently serves as the associate editor of the World Journal of Cancer Research (USA), is on the editorial board of the Open Biomarker Journal (USA), and is a board member of the Journal of National Cancer Centre. He is an active member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (USA), Chemistry in Cancer Research (USA), Cancer Metastasis Society (USA), International Cancer Microenvironment Society (USA), Australian Society of Medical Research, and Australian Prostate Cancer Collaboration, as well as a member of the postgraduate review committee at St George Clinical School. He has been honorary president of the Australian Association of Chinese Biomedical Scientists (AACBS) since 2020.