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Professor Gong Cheng received his Ph.D. in microbiology from Fudan University in 2008 and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Yale University. He joined Tsinghua University in 2011 and is currently a tenured professor and doctoral supervisor. He also serves as the vice dean of the school of medicine and the deputy secretary of the party committee. He has won the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars” of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the “Young Yangtze River Scholar” of the Ministry of Education, the First Prize of Natural Science of Beijing Science and Technology Award, Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, C. C. Tan Life Science Innovation Award, VCANBIO Award for Innovations and Breakthroughs in Life Sciences and Medicine, SHUSEN LANJUAN Medical Youth Award and so. Professor Gong Cheng has long been researching the pathogenesis of arboviral infectious diseases and vaccine research and development. He has published more than 40 research papers in prestigious international journals. The series of research results provide a biological basis for the prevention and control of important mosquito-borne viruses and also promote the development and improvement of the conceptual system of virulent mosquito-borne viral infectious diseases. It represents a significant breakthrough in the study of mosquito-borne viral infectious diseases which is a key research area of life science worldwide and facilitates the application of related research findings to the development of novel medicines and vaccines.