He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wuhan University in China. His interests in chemistry and biology led to his doctoral studies in the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Institute of Biophysics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He started his postdoctoral studies at the laboratory of Dr. Jianjie Ma in 2004, where he has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from American Heart association (AHA). He has published 12 peer-reviewed research articles. He is the recipient of national grants from NIH and AHA. He is serving as a reviewer of several reputed journals, and he is the member of the Extramural Review Committee of the American Heart Association (AHA), Basic Cell - Cell Structure and Survival Study Group.