Xinjie Bao is deputy director and chief physician of the Neurosurgery Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and chief scientist of the national key research and development program “Stem Cells and Translational Research”. He specializes in the treatment of pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, hemifacial spasms and trigeminal neuralgia. Graduated from the School of Medicine of Xi’an Jiaotong University, majoring in clinical medicine, and later studied for a doctorate in neurosurgery at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. In 2013, he participated in the first batch of the CTSI training course “Designing Clinical Research” at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in the United States and went to Germany to participate in craniocerebral trauma training. He completed Samii skull base neurosurgery training in 2015, completed international neuro endoscopic technology training in 2017, and visited the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, USA. He has presided over many national-, provincial- and ministerial-level projects such as the National 863 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and the Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Major Collaborative Innovation Project.