Xuetao Cao

Biography

Dr. Xuetao Cao is the current President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. He was born in 1964 and received his both of his M.D. and Ph.D degrees from the Second Military Medical University (1986 and 1990, Shanghai, China). He became Professor in Immunology in 1993 at the Second Military Medical University and the Director of the Institute of Immunology at the same University in 2001. He is the Founder Director of the Institute of Immunology at Zhejiang University since 2000. He has also been Professor and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology since 2006. Dr. Cao was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005, German Academy of Sciences in 2013, French Academy of Medicine in 2014, EMBO in 2015 and UK Academy of Medicine in 2016. He was President of Chinese Society for Immunology for 8 years (2006.10-2014.10), President of Federation of Immunological Societies in Asia and Oceania FIMSA (2012.5-2015.6) and President of Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases GACD (2013.12-2015.12). He is currently the Secretary General of Chinese Society for Immunology (2014.10- ), and Secretary General of FIMSA (2016.6- ).

Research Interest

His laboratory focuses on the understanding of innate signaling in immunity and inflammation, identification of cell subsets and new molecules in dendritic cell (DC)-initiated immune response and cancer immunotherapy. His group has identified important mediators and regulators of innate immune response and inflammation, characterized immune subsets with regulatory function in immunity and cancer.