Dr. Dong Fang received his bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University in 2007, and received his doctor's degree at Tsinghua University in 2012. In the same year, Dr. Fang joined Mayo Clinic for his postdoctoral research. He then moved to Columbia University Medical Center as an associate research scientist in 2016. In 2018, Dr. Fang joined the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University to build his research team as the principal investigator. Dr. Fang is interested in the research of epigenetics and tumors. His research is focused on how the histone modifications determine cell fate.