Dr. Xiao-Hong Zhu graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1985 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry. She came to US in 1987 and obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-St. Louis) at 1991. After graduation, she received postdoctoral training in Professor Robert G. Shulman's lab (Magnetic Resonance Center, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University) where she started MR related research. Dr. Zhu joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) in 1994 working with Prof. K. Ugurbil, SG Kim and W. Chen in developing and utilizing MR imaging and spectroscopy technologies for basic biomedical research; she has over 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and became an associate professor (w/o tenure track) in the Department of Radiology in 2003.