Dr. Yi Ren is a Professor at the College of Medicine, Florida State University. She completed her M.D. in Medicine at Guiyang Medical School, MPhil in Immunology and Virology at Chinese Disease Control, Ph.D. in Cell Biology at Imperial College School of Medicine, UK, and Post-Doctoral training at the University of Nottingham and Edinburgh. She is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Neuroscience, American Association for Cancer Research, and Association for the Study of Neurons and Diseases also serves as an Associate Editor for Macrophage. Her interests are in the molecular cell biology of inflammation, especially macrophage function in CNS trauma and tumor progression.