The Assistant is a research assistant at West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, and holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Her primary research focuses on laboratory diagnosis of autoimmune diseases and genetic risk factors. She has published 11 SCI papers as the first author/co-first author/corresponding author, with a total impact factor of 50.585. She holds four invention patents and has participated in one key research and development program by the Ministry of Science and Technology and four projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has also contributed to the compilation of two books.