Prof. Hong-Bao Li received a master's degree in physiology from Lanzhou University in 2012. In 2015, he graduated from the School of Medicine at Xi'an Jiaotong University with a doctoral degree and remained at the school to work. From 2017 to 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Florida in the United States. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Xi'an Jiaotong University. His research interests mainly focus on Host intestinal microbes and cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and Host intestinal microbes and pulmonary hypertension.