Yan Bi obtained her MS from Nanjing University and her Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University respectively. She joined Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in 1992 and was promoted to Chief Physician in 2016. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield. Now she serves as the Vice President of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital and Director of the Endocrinology Department. She is also a member of Chinese Diabetes Society and the Vice Chairman of the Diabetes Branch of Jiangsu Medical Association. Her research primarily focuses on diabetes and obesity, both in clinical and basic settings.

So far, she has been leading one key project and four general projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published over 80 SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author on prestigious journals including Cell Metabolism, Diabetes Care, Journal of Hepatology, Nature Communications, Diabetes, etc.