YANG Baofeng was born on November 27, 1957 in Songyuan City, Jilin Province. He is a pharmacologist. He is a representative of the 17th, 18th, and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Tongji Medical University) in 1988 and received a doctorate in pharmacology. He went to Japan and Canada to study successively, and was hired as honorary professor and honorary doctorate by famous universities in the United States, Australia, Russia, Japan and other countries. Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. The current president of Harbin Medical University, the chairman of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance (106 universities) alliance, the vice president of the Chinese Medical Association, the vice chairman of the Heilongjiang Association for Science and Technology, the honorary chairman of the Chinese Cardiovascular Pharmacology Professional Committee; the "973" project of heart disease research Chief Scientist, Director of the Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Drug Research, Ministry of Education, National Key Discipline of Pharmacology, National Teaching Team and Leader of National Science and Technology Innovation Group. He was the director of the Department of Medicine and Hygiene of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Academician YANG Baofenghas long been committed to the researchon the trial of 50+ drugs whcih act on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and discovered the characteristics and laws of ion channels for anti-myocardial ischemia and arrhythmia drugs, and proposed the theory of ion channel targets, which was compiled into "Ion Channels" Pharmacology" and undergraduate textbook "Pharmacology".