XingLou Yang is a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS. From 2014 to 2016, Prof. Yang was a research assistant at the Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS. From 2016 to 2022, Prof. Yang was an associate researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS. In 2013, Prof. Yang received the title of Outstanding Graduate from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2018, Prof. Yang obtained a Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Framing the Response to Emerging Virus Infections, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. Prof. Yang has experience in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases caused by lethal virus infections posing a severe threat to public health around the world. Prof. Yang has long been engaged in pathogen discovery and risk assessment in wild rodents and bats.