Yong-ming Yao, MD., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery, Director of Translational Medicine Research Center, Medical Innovation Research Division and the Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. He graduated from the Third Military Medical University in Chongqing, China, and finished post-doctor certification in Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna, Austria. Currently, he is the President of International Federation of Shock Societies (IFSS), the Chairman of Chinese Shock and Sepsis Society, the President of China DAMP and Inflammation Association, and the Chairman of Chinese Microbiological Toxins Society, etc. He is the associate editors and executive editor-in-chief for 9 journals, including Mil Med Res, Shock, Front Public Health, etc. Altogether 643 scientific articles have been published in national and international journals (221 articles in SCI journals): including Ann Surg, Intensive Care Med, Autophagy, Cytokine Growth F R, etc. In addition, he has edited many professional monograms. His research project has been supported in parts by the National Basic Research Program of China, National Natural Science Outstanding Youth Foundation of China, and Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has won numerous international and national prizes for his achievement in the past 30 years. His research specialization was focused on host immune dysfunction and its potential regulation pathway in shock, sepsis, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome after major trauma and burns.