Mr. Fang was born on November 24, 1941, in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. He was a former director of the Division of Viral Diarrhea at the Institute of Viral Disease Prevention and Control, China CDC.
Mr. Fang graduated from Peking University in 1965, received his bachelor's degree on Biophysics, and received his M.Sc. on Biophysics also from Peking University in 1968. He joined the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences/Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in 1968 as an Junior Research Fellow, Research Associate (1980), Associate Research Scientist (1987) , Research Scientist (1992). In 2002, the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine was renamed the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Mr. Fang served as Research Scientist until his retirement in 2006. Between 1980 and 1982, he studied in the Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania as postdoctoral fellow. Subsequently, he spent three years in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA between 1988 and 1990, served as Visiting Scientist.
Mr. Fang's research interests are in the prevention of viral gastroenteritis, mostly focus on rotaviruses
