Rong Yang obtained his Bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees from the Medicine School of Nanjing University. He conducted research as a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco from 2007 to 2008. In 2009, he joined the Department of Urology, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School. In 2022, he was appointed as a Professor and the Vice Chief of the Urology Department. Currently, he also serves as a Principal Investigator in State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Nanjing University. His primary research interests revolve around tumorigenesis and immunotherapy of bladder cancer.