Min Zhao graduated from a Medical School in China and obtained his doctorate in Trauma Surgery and Pathology with Zhengguo Wang. He moved to England in 1994 and was trained under Geoff Burnstock at University College London. He then established his lab with a prestigious Wellcome Trust University Award at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and worked closely with Professors John Forrester and Colin McCaig. He was selected to present at the House of Commons as one of the top young Scientists of the UK in 2001. He was promoted to full professor and personal chair in Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and honorary Consultant in Department of Ophthalmology at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 2004. He moved his lab to University of California Davis in 2007 as professor in Dept. of Dermatology and Dept. of Ophthalmology & Vision Science. His research is continuously supported by the NIH, Air Force, DARPA and NSF. He serves on grant review panels of NSF, NIH and DoD, and reviews for funding agencies internationally. His research has been published in Nature, PNAS, Nature Communications, JID, WRR, Nature Protocols, J Cell Biology, AJO, IOVS and other peer reviewed journals. He serves as a reviewer for Cell, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS and over 80 other academic journals. He sits on 6 editorial board, including as a founding editor of a new journal – Bioelectricity. Min Zhao’s research focuses on 1) understanding how electrical activities in our body help to heal and regenerate; and 2) exploiting such electrical mechanism to treat injuries and diseases with a focus on the eye. His lab pioneered experimental discoveries that wound electric fields provide an overriding guidance mechanism for cell migration, and identified the first sets of genes underlying the response.