Fuhua Yan received his BS from Zunyi Medical College and his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1985 and 1993, respectively. From 1998 to 1999, he worked as a visiting scholar in the University of Queensland, Australia. He became an associate professor at the School of Stomatology, Fujian Medical University in 1999, and was promoted to professor in 2001. Since 2013, he has been a professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Nanjing University. He is the President of Periodontology of Chinese Stomatological Association and also the Vice President of Nanjing Stomatological Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University. His main research areas include tissue engineering and periodontal regeneration, the relationship between periodontal diseases and systemic diseases, and implant restoration with periodontal diseases, among others.