zhou xingchen, a ph.d. graduate from the university of rennes in france, joined professor liu xindong’s team in 2023 to explore the protein degradation mechanism of t cell exhaustion in the context of tumors. publish papers as first author or participant in jbc, trends in biochemical sciences, jmv, embo reports, etc. hosted the chongqing doctoral express project and was selected as chongqing golden phoenix talent.