Professor Yun-Qing LI received his MD in clinical medicine (1984) and PhD in neuroanatomy (1990) from The Fourth Military Medical University (Xi’an, China), after which he worked as a faculty member at the same university. In 1993, after finishing his study in Japan, he got his second PhD in neuroanatomy from Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University. He is currently the Professor and Director of KK Leung Brain Research Centre, Air Force Medical University. Professor LI is the President of Chinese Society of Anatomical Sciences (CSAS, 2006-2014; 2022-), Vice President of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA, 2014-2022), members of the Executive Board Committee of the International Committee of Symposia of Morphological Sciences (ISMS, 2017-) and the Asia-pacific International Committee of Anatomy (APICA, 2018-), chief-editor of Chinese Journal of Neuroanatomy, associate editor of Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, and the members of the editorial board of Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, Molecular Pain and Histochemistry and Cell Biology. Professor LI's research interests mainly focus on nociceptive sensory information transmission and modulation. His research work has made significant progress in central endogenous pain control system, chronic pain, and new pain associated neural pathways that interact with emotion and cognition. His research work, supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation and Ministry of Science and Technology of China, has provided new anatomic basis for more effective treatment of pain and negative emotions. As a first author or corresponding author, he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in Neuron, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Progress in Neurobiology, Pain, Molecular Neurobiology, Cerebral cortex, and so forth.