Dr. YANG Yang is currently an Associate Chief Physician of Thoracic Surgery at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. He is also a Professor at Shanghai Tongji University.

Yang Yang is a professor, doctoral supervisor, associate chief physician of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital affiliated to Tongji University, and a visiting professor of Charite University Hospital Group in Germany. In 2012, he received a doctorate degree in medicine from Tongji University; in 2009 and 2011, he went to the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Innsbruck in Austria for visiting studies. He is currently an associate chief physician and the head of the thoracic surgery laboratory of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital affiliated to Tongji University.

Dr. Yang Yang is specialized in personalized comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of thoracic tumors and transplantation of end-stage lung disease. He has a deep research foundation and rich experience in minimally invasive surgery, lung cancer genotyping, targeted/immunotherapy and multidisciplinary medicine. In terms of medical research, he focuses on the development of biomaterials and methods for early diagnosis of lung cancer and efficient treatment of lung cancer, systematic research, and has been carried out around the integration of early detection of lung cancer with high sensitivity, targeted therapy, and multi-modal imaging/high-efficiency treatment. Related results were published in high-level journals such as Adv Mater, Angew Chem and Small.