Dr. Zhigang Tian is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is the Professor, Founder and Director of Institute of Immunology, former Dean of School of Life Sciences, former President of Medical Center of University of Science & Technology of China (USTC); Director of Key Lab of Innate Immunity & Chronic Diseases (Chinese Academy of Science); Director of Institute of Health & Medicine, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center. He has published a total of 400+ publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Cell, Nat Immunol, Immunity, Cell Metabol, Sci Transl Med, etc. The number of publications with the keyword “NK cell” (articles & reviews) ranks #1 in the world in the last 10 years. He is also the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Cellular & Molecular Immunology (CMI, an official English journal of CSI) (IF=21.8).

He is the Member of Executive Council of International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), Member of International Science Council-China Branch (ISC-CHINA), Member of General Committee of China Association for Science & Technology (2018), former President of Chinese Society for Immunology (CSI), former Chairperson of Organization of Tumor Immunology and Biotherapy of CSI, and former Chairperson of Cancer Biotherapy Committee of China Anti-Cancer Association.