Yongming Sang, Professor, is currently working in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN, USA. He is a focus group leader of animal science and a supervisor/director of the ImmunoGenomics Laboratory. He received a DSC in plant physiology and biochemistry from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1996, and earned a PhD in immuno-physiology from Kansas State University in 2008. His research efforts are directed at elucidating, molecularly and functionally, animal immune and metabolic genes, in particular those that have antimicrobial activities and therapeutic potential. His current projects are focused on the following three directions: (1) antimicrobial regulation against animal viral and bacterial diseases underlying immunometabolic function of immune molecules and cells; (2) swine genome projects, animal comparative immunogenetics, and immunoreagent development; and (3) the development of novel IFN-based antivirals and alternatives to antibiotics.