Qing Xu graduated from the Second Military Medical University and is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Tongji University and the director of the Department of Oncology at the Tenth People's Hospital in Shanghai, China. from 2002 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida. His main research areas are tumor cell signaling and tumor angiogenesis. He was awarded the Third Class Military Merit and received several medical science and technology awards from the Chinese Medical Association, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Medical Association, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and the PLA.