Education:   

1999:  Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.  

1989:  M.Sc., Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.   

1986:  B.S,  Department of Biology, Wuhan University, China.   

Research Experience: 

2005.5-present: Principal investigator, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wuhan, China .  

1989.7-1994.8:  Assistant Professor, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China .   

Postdoctoral training 

2003.5-2005.4:  Postdoctoral research fellow at Molecular Cardiology Research Center, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. USA 

2002.9-2003.5:  Research associate at Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. USA 

2000.3-2002.8:  Research associate at Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. USA 

1999.7-2000.2   Post-doctoral fellow at Medical research center, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, USA.