YuLong Gao received his Doctor of Preventive Veterinary Medicine from The Northeast Agricultural University in 2007 and earned his Postdoctoral degree at Emory University in 2009. He is now a Chief Scientist of the Avian Immunosuppressive Disease Innovation Team at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. From 2012 to 2014, he served as an Associate Researcher at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and was promoted to Researcher in 2015. He was selected as a leading talent in the National Special Support Program and an innovative leading talent of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. His research topics mainly include Epidemiology, vaccines, Avian disease, and Viral disease.