He graduated from Zhejiang University College of Medicine, China in 1989 and received a M.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from Northeastern University in 1996. He completed postdoctoral research training in molecular biology with Dr. Jing Zhou and in developmental biology with Dr. Richard Maas at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After serving as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, he joined the Renal Section at Boston University in 2004 to study the molecular basis of kidney development and congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract. His research program is supported by grants from the NIH, March of Dimes and National Kidney Foundation.