In September 1981 he was accepted to the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1986 and completed his post-graduate studies in immunology in 1990.
[citation needed] In January 2018 he became a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
So far, no results have been announced, and netizens noticed a public smear campaign on American scientists from Harvard.
[5][6][7] The June 26, 2020 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry announced "expressions of concern" on 12 articles on which Cao was corresponding author.
[8] Cao is married and has a son, who received his doctoral degree at Harvard and is now in Xie Xiaoliang laboratory at Peking University.