FRSB: elected fellow, The Royal Society of Biology (2020-). FRSM: Elected Fellow, The Royal Society of Medicine (2018-). Ph.D.: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Postdoctoral Fellowship: Whitehead Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Research Fellowship: Harvard Medical School PI and Head, Neuro-Oncology and Stem Cell Research Laboratory, CHOC Children’s Hospital, University of California-Irvine School of Medicine. Adjunct Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, California State University Fullerton, CA. Sun Yat-sen University. 148+ publications, including peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, book chapters, and patent applications. His publications have been remarked in articles published in Nature, Science, Cell, and Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology (with11342 citations, h-index 41, i10-index 81). His publication was on the top 50 most frequently cited Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) Articles (#49) in 2004; on top 40 in 2005 and 2006, respectively. His recent research was highlighted on the cover of the August 2, 2011 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. He has served on the editorial board of PLOS ONE (Academic Editor), American Journal of Pathology (Official Journal of ASIP, Elsevier) since 2008, on the editorial board (section editor) of the Journal of Stem Cell & Therapy since 2011, on the editorial board of the World Journal of Stem Cells since 2012 (Editor-in-Chief, 2019-), Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery (H.K.), and the editorial board (Associate Editor) of Frontiers in Oncology (Switzerland) since 2021. Also, he has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for many other journals and grant agencies. Membership: Association for Clinical and Translational Science, Society for Translational and Clinical Sciences, International Society of Stem Cell Research, Society for Neuroscience, American Society for Cell Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Society of Investigative Pathology.