Professor Aimin Xu is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine and also the director for State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Hong Kong. He received his BS (Hons) in medicine at Anhui Medical University in China in 1989 and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 1999. He received his postdoctoral training at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland working on the proteomic identification of novel adipocyte-derived factors involved in obesity and insulin resistance.