Dr. Desmond Yat-Hin YAP joined the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital in 2004 and was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, since 2012 and as a Clinical Associate Professor in 2018. His research interests include the immunopathogenesis and the use of immunosuppressive treatments in glomerular diseases as well as infective complications in renal failure patients. He received the Young Investigator Award from the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology in 2009 for his work on lupus nephritis. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Hong Kong in 2014, was also awarded the Li Shu Pui Clinical Fellowship (2014–2015) to work as a research fellow at the Fiebiger–Nikolaus Centre, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany. He was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow, Edinburgh and London in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively. He is currently a council member of the Hong Kong Society of Nephrology (HKSN), the Hong Kong Society of Transplantation, Hong Kong Obesity Society, and also the Honorary Secretary for the Asian Lupus Nephritis Network (ALNN), and the Hong Kong Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (HKSHI). He has published over 90 articles and now serves as a Subject Editor for Nephrology (Carlton).