1997年于北京大學醫學部獲得醫學碩士學位；1998年作為訪問學者在美國賓夕法尼亞大學工作學習；

2004年于瑞士巴塞爾大學/弗裡德裡奇-米歇爾生物醫學研究所獲得博士學位；2005年進入南京大學工作。

     國家心血管病專家委員會先心病專業委員會常委

Wenli Fan, Zixuan Li, Xueke He, Xiaodong Wang, Ming Sun and Zhongzhou Yang* (2024)SLC25A1 regulates placental development to ensure embryonic heart morphogenesis. Development151(22): dev204290 (Highlight).

Haiyue Feng, Suming Yang, Lijun Zhang, Jingai Zhu, Jinsong Li *and Zhongzhou Yang* (2024) A new Prdm1-Cre line is suitable for studying the second heart field development. Dev. Biol. 514: 78-86

Ke Zhao, Xinyi Huang, Wukui Zhao, Bin Lu and Zhongzhou Yang* (2022) LONP1-mediated mitochondrial quality control safeguards metabolic shifts in heart development. Development

Yingchao Shi, Wenli Fan, Mingjie Xu, Xinhua Lin, Wukui Zhao*, Zhongzhou Yang*  (2022) Critical role of Znhit1 for postnatal heart function and vacuolar cardiomyopathy. JCI Insight

Xinyi Huang, Ke Zhao, Mingyang Jiang, Dehui Qiu, Jun Zhou and Zhongzhou Yang*(2022) The G4 resolvase RHAU regulates ventricular trabeculation and compaction through transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms. J. Biol. Chem.

Mingjie Xu, Jie Yao, Yingchao Shi, Huijuan Yi, Wukui Zhao, Xinhua Lin* and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2021) The SRCAP chromatin remodeling complex promotes oxidative metabolism during prenatal heart development. Development (亮點文章)

Meng Xia, Wen Luo, Hengwei Jin and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2019) HAND2-mediated epithelial maintenance and integrity in cardiac outflow tract morphogenesis. Development (封面文章)

Hengwei Jin, Huijuan Wang, Jie Li, Shan Yu, Mingjie Xu, Zhiqian Qiu, Meng Xia, Jingai Zhu, Qiuting Feng, Jun Xie, Biao Xu and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2019)Differential contribution of the two waves of cardiac progenitors and their derivatives to aorta and pulmonary artery. Dev. Biol.

Qi Xiao, Guoxin Zhang, Huijuan Wang, Lai Chen, Shuangshuang Lu, Dejing Pan, Geng Liu* and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2017) A p53 based genetic tracing system to follow postnatal cardiomyocyte expansion in heart regeneration. Development (亮點文章/封面文章)

Wen Luo, Xia Zhao, Hengwei Jin, Lichan Tao, Jingai Zhu, Huijuan Wang, Brian A. Hemmings and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2015) Akt1 signaling coordinates BMP signaling and β-catenin activity to regulate second heart field progenitor development. Development.

Junwei Nie, Mingyang Jiang, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Tang, Hengwei Jin, Xinyi Huang, Baiyin Yuan, Chenxi Zhang, Janice Ching Lai, Yoshikuni Nagamine, Dejing Pan, Wengong Wang* and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2015) Post-transcriptional Regulation of Nkx2-5 by RHAU in Heart Development.Cell Rep.(封面文章)

Xia Zhao, Shuangshuang Lu, Junwei Nie, Xiaoshan Hu, Wen Luo, Xiangqi Wu, Hailang Liu, Qiuting Feng, Zai Chang, Yaoqiu Liu, Yunshan Cao, Haixiang Sun, Xinli Li, Yali Hu, Zhongzhou Yang*. (2014) Phosphoinositide-dependent Kinase 1 and mTORC2 synergisticallymaintain postnatal heart growth and heart function in mice. Mol. Cell. Biol. (亮點/封面文章)

Zai Chang, Qin Zhang, Qiuting Feng, Jie Xu, Teng Teng, Qing Luan, Congjia Shan, Yali Hu, Brian A Hemmings, Xiang Gao and Zhongzhou Yang*. (2010) Deletion of Akt1 causes heart defects and abnormal cardiomyocyte proliferation. Dev. Biol.

主持在研項目：國家自然科學基金重大研究計劃培育項目一項。

國家科技進步獎二等獎(2016, 排名第3)