Dr. Tang received his medical degree from Fudan University School of Medicine in Shanghai and his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University. He has received postdoctoral training at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a clinical microbiology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Tang is an editor for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and a fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology and of the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Tang has research interests in the development and validation of molecular techniques and has published over 100 peer-reviewed original articles, reviews, and book chapters in the field of diagnostic molecular microbiology.