Prof. Tang is professor of sleep medicine and psychiatry, director of Sleep Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Dr. Tang received his doctorate degree in psychiatry in 1996. From 1998 to 2008, after one year of post doctoral training in University of Pennsylvania, he worked as a research assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia.

He made some important contributions to explore the role of sleep and sleep related changes in the pathological mechanism of anxiety and PTSD via animal model. Since 2008, he has worked in his current position and mainly focused on clinical research for sleep breathing and other types of sleep disorders.

Dr. Tang has authored and coauthored over 170 publications in SCI cited journals in the field of sleep. One of his group’s publications received an award for top research published in Hypertension in 2015 (Clinical Science) by the American Heart Association. He currently serves as associate editor of BMC Psychiatry; a member of the editorial boards for Sleep Medicine Reviews, Sleep and Breathing, and Journal of Psychosomatic Research; and a vice-president for the Chinese Sleep Research Society and the National Association of Sleep Medicine of China.