Yizhou Zou is currently a professor of the School of Basic Medicine of Central South University, Changsha, China. He is also an expert of Hunan's "Hundred Talents Program", a member of the American Society of Major Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) and the American Association of Immunologists (AAI). He is mainly engaged in the role of human major histocompatibility complex class I related gene A (MICA) in transplantation immunity, and has published more than 30 SCI papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Blood, Journal of Immunology, Aging and disease and other international well-known journals, as the corresponding author or the first author.