Ping Song is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Georgia State University. He completed his PhD studies in Biochemistry at the Nanjing Agricultural University, and has been awarded multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. He recently led projects on ketones in vascular diseases and tryptophan metabolism in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection. He has over 90 publications in various conferences and journals, including Nature Medicine, Circulation, Journal of Clinical Investigation, and Cells. He serves as a review committee member for the study section of the AHA. His teaching disciplines include advanced biomedicine. His research interests include vascular cell biology, vascular wall remodeling, anti-aging, cancer, signal transduction, and ketones.