Liu Xiaolong graduated from Nanchang University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in Organic Chemistry, and from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 with a doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. From 1999 to 2004, he received postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute in the US, conducting research in cellular immunology. In 2004, he was appointed as a researcher. In 2009, he was selected as the recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. In 2014, he was selected as one of the Young and Middle-Aged Leading Talents in Science and Technology Innovation by the Ministry of Science and Technology. From 2013 to 2017, he served as the chief of the National Basic Research Program of China (also known as the 973 Program), and has been the head of the Innovation Group Project by the National Natural Science Foundation of China since 2017. In recent years, he has carried out research in the differentiation, maturation and function of immune cells, and has published more than 40 research papers in academic journals such as Nat Immunol, Nat Commun, JEM, PNAS and EMBO J. He was awarded Life Science Prize by the Meiji Group in 2008, the 11th China Youth Science and Technology Award in 2009, Excellent Postgraduate Instructor of CAS in 2010, National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor in 2011, and the A-IMBN Research Young Investigators Award in 2012. He also serves on the editorial boards of academic journals such asCell ResandJ Biol Chem, as well as Vice President and Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.