Xiao Shifu is the Professor and Director of the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine and the Professor and Director of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University. He also is the Vice Chair of the Chinese Geriatrician Association and Alzheimer Disease China (ADC) Association, Vice Chair of the Chinese Mental Health Society’s Psychological Evaluation Committee, a board member of the Chinese Psychiatry Association and Vice Director of the Old Age Psychiatry Committee. Finally, Prof. Xiao is a member of the Chinese Neurology Association’s Cognition and Dementia Committee. Prof. Xiao currently is the Principal Investigator in a large study attempting to improve the early recognition and intervention of common psychological disorders in old age. This project is currently funded by the Shanghai Oriental Brain Medical Foundation. Prof. Xiao has also received funds from the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee for two different projects, to conduct clinical research on a new anti-Alzheimer’s drug and a comprehensive study on the diagnosis and possible treatment of MCI in the elderly. Prof. Xiao is also co-PI in an investigation contributing to new technology which will be used in medication trials for treating neurodegenerative disease and mental disorders. The latter study is funded by the China Science and Technology Ministry. Finally, Prof. Xiao received 2 grants from the Stanley Medical Institution of USA, and as PI or Co-PI and conducted more than 10 clinical trials approved by SFDA in the last decade. Prof. Xiao was the leading PI of phase II and phase III clinical trial of oligomannurarate (GV-971).