Guoying Yu, Dean of College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from the Henan Normal University, Yunnan University, and The Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Peoples’ Republic of China respectively. He joined Dr. Kaminski’ research group in 2006 in the University of Pittsburgh and moved to Yale in 2013. He has undertaken basic and translational investigations into idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive scarring of the alveolar parenchyma that ultimately leads to respiratory failure and death, characterized by epithelial cell injury and unremitting accumulation of fibroblasts with unknown etiology without effective therapy. Currently, he is focusing on exploring the role and regulation of MMP19, miR-29, and thyroid hormone in human pulmonary fibrosis.