Prof. Dr. Xiaohui Frank Zhang did postdoctoral research in 2008 at the Harvard Medical School on immune disease and pathology, after earning his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He took his M.Phil. in Biophysics at the University of Hong Kong and his B.S. in Biophysics and Biology at Sun Yat-sen University in China. He is now a tenured professor at the Department of Bioengineering, at Lehigh University. Before joining the Lehigh faculty, Zhang was also a principal investigator at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the founding co-president of the International Society for Mechanobiology and the recipient of the Lehigh Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award and the American Heart Association career award.