Haitao Yang earned his Ph.D. in Medical Genetics from the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University, Sweden. He completed postdoctoral training in Neurogenetics at UCLA and Cancer Genetics at UCSF. He has served as a professor at Shenzhen University School of Medicine and was named a Qianjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor in 2015.
Dr. Yang is a standing member of the Biotechnology Promotion Committee of the Chinese Genetics Society, a member of the Asia-Pacific Human Genetics Association, a researcher at the Shenzhen Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, and a genetic counselor at the Prenatal Diagnosis Center of Huizhou Women and Children’s Hospital. He founded biomedical technology companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Currently, he is a professor at the Cell and Gene Therapy Research Center at Southern University of Science and Technology. His work focuses on research and development of mRNA tumor vaccines for cardiovascular diseases and tumors. Dr. Yang holds over 10 patents.