Professor Hui Yao LAN is a Choh-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences jointly at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, as well as a Professor (by courtesy) at the School of Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Lan received his Medical (1977) and Master's degree (1986) at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, China, and his PhD degree (1990) at Monash University, Australia. He previously held a tenured full professorship at the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, and full Professorship at the Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong. He has been servicing as an Editor/Associate Editor and Editorial board member in many scientific journals and published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 95.