Pei-Hong ZHU, male, Han Nationality, was born on the 31st October, 1942 in Shanghai, China. He is Professor of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He became the Editor-in-Chief of the Acta Physiologica Sinica since April 2006.

Professor Zhu graduated from Department of Physics (Biophysics speciality) University of Science and Technology of China in 1965. He joined Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the same year. Since then, he has done scientific research in this institution, until this institution was abolished in 2000. During this period, he had research training in Department of Biophysics, University College of London for two years, between 1981 and 1983.

His main research interest is the general physiology and biophysics of neuromuscular system. Before 80', he worked on the trophic relationship between nerve and muscle, especially the neural determination of muscle fiber type characteristics. After coming back from the Britain, his interest tuned to the study of excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal muscle. Recently, his study is focusing on structure and function of ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel.