Chengyu Liang is a Professor and Program Co-Leader at The Wistar Institute. She received her M.D. degree from Qingdao University School of Medicine, China, and her Ph.D. degree in genetics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. She completed postdoctoral training in tumor virology at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Liang established her independent research program in 2009 and has since led pioneering studies elucidating fundamental cellular mechanisms underlying inflammation, infection, and cancer, with a focus on autophagy, organelle homeostasis, genomic stability, membrane trafficking, and virus–host interactions.