Jian Zuo obtained his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China in 1985. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology from University of California San Francisco in 1993. After postdoc training in Rockefeller University in New York City, he became a faculty at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis in 1998. After 20 years at St. Jude, he recently moved to Creighton University School of Medicine as the Chairman and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in April 2018. He has published more than 100 research articles and more than 20 reviews with high impacts. He currently has two NIH R01 grants, three DoD grants and multiple NIH SBIR grants. He has trained many successful students and postdocs and has interests in commercialization of his discoveries.