1989, Bachelor's in Medicine, Shanghai Second Medical Univ.; 1995, MD/PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany. Postdoctoral training and later Project Leader, German Institute of Hypertension Research, and Institute of Pharmacology, Univ. of Kiel, Germany; Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Washington; Regional Scientific Manager (cardiovascular drugs), Hoechst Marion Roussel Pharma; 1998, moved to National Univ. of Singapore (NUS) and worked as Lee Kuan Yew Research Fellow/Principal Investigator; later Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, NUS; 2005, appointed as Professor of Pharmacology, Dean of School of Pharmacy and Director, Institute of Drug R&D, Fudan Univ. Has published around 100 scientific papers and edited two books. Editor and reviewer for international scientific journals. External expert/evaluator, Centre of Drug Evaluation, HSA, Singapore and SFDA, China. Holder of several US, PCT and Chinese patents for new drug discovery. Recipient of awards.