He completed his PhD doctorate at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. His fellowship experience includes the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Whitehead Institute (NIH-Individual National Research Service Award) and Harvard University Medical School. He serves as principal investigator (Faculty Scientist) at CHOC Children’s Hospital Research Institute/University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, and adjunct professor of California State University Fullerton and Sun Yat-sen University. He has 154+ publications and 20 U.S.-issued patents. His work is remarked in articles published in Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Review Cancer, Nature Review Medicine, Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology, with citations of 7,938+ (single-papers with ~ 1000 citations). He serves on editorial board of Journals (Am. J. Pathol., Curr. Stem Cell Res. & Ther., World J. Stem Cells) and with membership of ACTS, ISSCR, SfN, ASCB, ASN, ASIP, RSM (elected overseas fellow).

Cancer, Cancer Stem Cell, Ipsc, Brain Tumor, Matrix Scaffold For Culture Of Stem Cells, Ex Vivo Model, In Vitro, In Vivo Model, Clinical Oncology, Single-Cell Transcriptome For Subclonal Evolution Of Cancer, Signal Transduction In Cancer, Immunotherapy, Tumor Microenvironment.