MD in Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, China - 1981
MSc in Anatomic Pathology, Tongji Medical University, China - 1985
PhD in Immunology, McMaster University, Canada - 1993
Xing does bench-to-human translational research in respiratory mucosal immunity, innate memory and trained innate immunity, adaptive memory and T cell immunity, vaccines, tuberculosis, influenza, pneumococcal infection, and COVID-19. He has published more than 220 papers with more than 23,000 citations (Google Scholar). Some of his primary research findings are published in top scientific journals including Cell, Nature Immunology, Nature Communications, Science Translational Medicine, Blood, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Mucosal Immunology, and Journal of Immunology.