Dr. Juquan Song is currently an assistant professor at the surgery department of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, USA. He graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Zhongshan School of Medicine of Sun Yat-Sen University in China in 1993. He was trained as an NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellow from 2006 to 2010. Over 20 years of burn research experience, he displayed interest in pathophysiological changes following severe burns, and especially on studying post-burn muscle-wasting mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.