Dr. Min Zhuo is a Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto, and also serves as the Michael Smith Chair in Neuroscience and Mental Health, and the Canada Research Chair in Pain and Cognition. He is also a Chang Jiang (Li Ka Shing) Scholar in Neurobiology at Fundan University in Shanghai, and the editor-in-chief of the first on-line journal, Molecular Pain. A native of China, Dr. Zhuo received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Iowa, and postdoctoral trainings at Columbia University and Stanford University. He held a faculty position at Washington University before moving to the University of Toronto in 2003.

Dr. Zhuo's main areas of research interest and contribution are synaptic transmission and plasticity, memory, emotion, fear and anxiety, pain, genetic models for neurological and psychiatric diseases, retrograde messengers, and cortical reorganization. He has chaired and lectured at universities and scientific conferences throughout the world, has published more than 150 manuscripts, and contributed to numerous book chapters and journals including Science and Nature. The scientific findings from Dr. Zhuo's labs have also been widely covered in the media including Time Magazine, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Science magazine, etc.