Min Zhao graduated from a Medical School in China and obtained his doctorate in Trauma Surgery and Pathology. He was trained under Geoff Burnstock at University College London, before establishing his lab with a Wellcome Trust University Award at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and worked closely with John Forrester and Colin McCaig. Since then, his research has been focused on endogenous electrical signaling in wound healing, and developing possible therapies based on this mechanism. 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. He serves on grant review panels of NSF, NIH and DoD, and international agencies. His research has been published in Nature, PNAS, Nature Microbiology and other peer reviewed journals. He serves as a reviewer for Science, Cell, Nature and over 100 other academic journals. Research in his lab focuses on 1) understanding how electrical activities help to heal and regenerate; 2) exploiting electrical mechanism to treat injuries and diseases. 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.