Yang Zhang, PhD, is a Researcher/Associate Professor at the Beijing Institute of Hepatology of Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University. From 1997 to 2015, he was employed at the Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. During that time, he got his B.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Biochemical Pharmacology from Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, respectively. He also received postdoctoral training in the field of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of EACPHS at Wayne State University. He has been a member of the Beijing Institute Hepatology of Beijing at Youan Hospital since 2021 and is the leader of the research team on "Molecular mechanisms and early diagnostic markers of metabolic liver disease". In 2020, he was awarded the "Early Career Investigator Award in Basic Sciences" by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.