Dr. Xiaobo Zhong is a professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of School of Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He received a B.Sc. degree from Peking University in 1984, and a Ph.D. degree from Wageningen University in 1998. He was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Zhong was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center before he joined UConn in 2012. He is a member of American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) as well as other 5 societies. He has served as a Councilor and Chair of the Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition of ASPET, member of the Program Committee of ASPET, and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Microsomes and Drug Oxidations (MDO). He serves on editorial boards for 6 journals, including Associate Editor of Drug Metabolism and Disposition, and Section Editor of Noncoding RNA. He also serves as an Ad Hoc reviewer on several NIH study sections. He has been funded by NIH R35, R01, and P20 grants in the last 20 years. Dr. Zhong is the author of >130 articles. Research in Dr. Zhong’s laboratory focuses on drug metabolism, pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepigenetics, nucleic acid therapeutics, and personalized medicine. He provides lectures in several core courses for UConn Pharm.D. and Ph.D. students.