Xiaoyuan Chu received his BS from the Second Military Medical University, MS from the First Military Medical University, and Ph.D. from the Second Military Medical University. He worked as a visiting scholar at the School of Medicine, University of Massachusetts under the guidance of Prof. Alan G. Rosmarin from 2011 to 2012. Since 2016, he has served as the Director of the Department of Oncology at Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of the Medical School, Nanjing University. His research focuses on the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of cancer.