Dr. Hui Yang is a supervisor and investigator at Huashan Hospital and the Institute of Translational Brain Science, Fudan University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biomedical Research at Fudan University in 2013, where he was awarded the Wu Rui Scholarship. In 2014, Dr. Yang joined the Department of Molecular Biology/HHMI lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, focusing on the regulation and function of innate immunity. He returned to Fudan University in 2019, joining Huashan Hospital and the Institute of Translational Brain Science, where his research has concentrated on the metabolic regulation of innate immunity in brain diseases. His team has systematically explored the pathophysiological roles of metabolites as “signaling molecules” in epigenetic regulation, uncovering novel physiological functions of the innate immune pathway cGAS-STING in regulating cellular autophagy and senescence. His work has been published in academic journals such as Nature, Cancer Cell (cover), Nature Metabolism, PNAS, and Cell Research, with over 9,000 citations.