Professor Heping (Peace) Cheng received degrees in applied mathematics and mechanics, physiology, and biomedical engineering from Peking University, China, where he served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering before earning his Ph.D. degree in Physiology in 1995 from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He then joined the NIH Intramural Research Program as a senior staff fellow in 1995 and was selected as a tenure-track investigator in 1998. In November, 2004, he became a senior investigator and the head of the Ca2+ Signaling Section in the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, NIH. He participated in the Cheung Kong Scholars Programme (cell biology) in 2000 and is now a full-time senior investigator of IMM, PKU.