Yicheng Ni graduated from Nanjing Medical University of China with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1983, became a staff member, and obtained an MSc degree in 1989 at the Surgery Department there. In 1990, he went to KU Leuven, Belgium, started an experimental radiology laboratory, and received a PhD in 1995 there. Given his outstanding performance, he was granted a tenured professorship followed by steady promotions up to a full professor in 2010 at the Faculty of Medicine, until his emeritus in 2022 from KU Leuven. He has continued with a Chair-professor at Southeast University in China. Over the last decades, he has focused his interests on life-threatening disorders including cancer and cardiovascular diseases. With his expertise in clinical medicine, biomedical imaging, interventional therapies, and contrast agents, he established a series of experimental platforms for innovative translational research on diagnostics/therapeutics or theragnostics.