Dr.  Hongtao YU is Chair  Professor and Dean of School of Life Sciences at Westlake University. Dr. Yu  received his B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University in 1990, and received his  Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1995. He then completed his  postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yu began his independent  research career in 1999 in Department of Pharmacology at University of Texas  Southwestern Medical Center, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure  in 2004 and to Professor in 2008. He was appointed Howard Hughes Medical  Institute (HHMI) Investigator in 2008, and was elected Fellow of  the American  Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in  2012. He was the holder of the Serena S. Simmons Distinguished Chair in Cancer  Immunopharmacology before joining the faculty of Westlake University in  December, 2019.