Prof. Lvyun Zhu obtained both his bachelor and PhD degrees from Zhejiang University. As a graduate student, he focused on the research of development and comparative immunology, supervised by Professor Jianzhong Shao. After graduation, he went to National University of Defense Technology to start his own research in July 2014. He started to work on the synthetic biology especially the development of novel technologies of noninvasive diagnosis based on genome-editing tools. From 2018 to 2019, he moved to Yale University as a visiting scientist under Professor Sidi Chen, a famous young genetic scientist with great success in the area of cancer immunotherapy.  Up to now, He continues to focus on cancer immunology based on genome-wide or focused CRISPR screens. He has published 24 papers on the top journals such as Cell, Cancer Discovery, Nature Immunology, Cell Reports, Journal of Immunology and ACS synthetic biology etc.