Professor Xu Yun is a Chief Physician, a Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor. Since 2005, she has served as the Director of the Department of Neurology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University in 2006. She received training as a visiting scholar in neurology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany from 1998 to 1999. She further pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Currently, her research interests primarily focus on both basic and clinical research of cerebrovascular disease, as well as the early diagnosis and treatment of dementia.