Professor Yang received his PhD in chemistry in 1994 from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined the faculty at Fudan University as an associate professor in 1996, pursued bacterial resistance project from National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Miami University since 1998, and following serviced Girindus America Inc. at the Medicinal Chemistry Department as a senior scientist to mastermind the research and development projects from Procter and Gamble and Aventis Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Yang joined the faculty at Northwest University as a Professor and a leading investigator in Chemical Biology in 2007, also a Chair Professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden, in 2016. He is a member of SIGMA XI, The Scientific Research Society.