Mingze Yao received his B.Sc. from the School of Life Sciences at Shanxi University, China, in 2008. He then attended the Institute of Biotechnology, Shanxi University, as a Ph.D. student where he obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2013. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Over the past five years, he has devoted himself to the mechanisms of pluripotent maintenance and differentiation of embryonic stem cells. He is the first or co-author of 10 papers in international journals, including Nature Communications, Cell Stem Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Scientific Reports.