Jinghong Dai obtained her Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree from Southeast University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She received her Doctorate from Nanjing University in 2014. In 2015, shejoined Nanjing University[郭Guo1] as an Associate Professor, and was later promoted to Full Professor in 2018. She has been leading several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and/or by Jiangsu Province. She has published more than 30 SCI papers as the corresponding author or first author. Her research interests focus on the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis, and early diagnosis and prognosis of all kinds of interstitial lung diseases.