Yang Weiwei received his bachelor's degree from Wuhan University in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS in 2007. From 2008 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center and became an Odyssey Fellow. Since August 2013, he has been a research fellow, principal investigator and doctoral supervisor of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).