Xiuxiu Xu,^1,2 Yonggang Zhou,^1,2 Binqing Fu,^1,2 Haiming Wei<sup>1,2,*,**

1</sup>Institute of Gerontology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
²Institute of Immunology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

^*Correspondence: Institute of Gerontology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230001, P.R. China. Tel/Fax: +86-0551-63606783; E-mail: ustcwhm@ustc.edu.cn
^**Dr. Haiming Wei is Professor of Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Wei received his PhD from Shandong University, China in 2003. Dr. Wei works on basic immunology and application of natural killer (NK) cells, as well as NK cells in tissue microenvironment of reproduction and tumors. Dr Wei has so far published >243 peer-reviewed research articles with >9493 citations and H-index 52 (as of December 2021). Dr. Wei has received numerous academic awards, including the 2008 Second Prize of National Natural Science, the 2007 and 2010 First Prize of Chinese Medical Science and Technology, the 2016 First Prize of Anhui Province Natural Science, the 2020 National Advanced Individual in the Fight Against COVID-19 epidemic. Dr. Wei is Professor of the “Changjiang Scholars Award Program,” Executive Director of the Chinese Society of Immunology; Vice Chairman of the Reproductive Immunity Professional Committee and the Tumor Immunity and Biological Therapy Professional Committee of Chinese Society of Immunology; and Chairman of the Anhui Provincial Society of Immunology. For more information, please visit the Wei lab website: http://ioi.ustc.edu.cn/2010/0813/c1383a6751/page.htm.