Ling Kong is currently an assistant research professor at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Health (CRMH) at the Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to this appointment, she served as an associate professor at the Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine & Health – Guangdong Laboratory for five years. To broaden her research interests in the biomedical sciences, Ling joined the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2016. She began her postdoctoral training at CUHK immediately after obtaining her PhD in Biology from CUHK in 2014.