He obtained his Ph.D in veterinary medicine at Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, P. R. China. Tang is focused on research to investigate of animal infectious disease pathogenicity and epidemiology, to design and develop effective subunit vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus, infectious bursal disease virus, and infectious bronchitis virus, to better understand vaccine-induced protective immune mechanisms, to develop adjuvants and immunopotentiators for improving the efficacy of licensed vaccine and subunit vaccine.