Xue-Jun Song, MD, PhD, is currently Professor of Neurobiology, Anesthesiology, and Oncology, Director of SUSTech Center for Pain Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, and Executive Director of Center for Pain Medicine, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China. Dr. Song received his MD from Xuzhou Medical University and PhD from the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Song did his Postdoc at Yale University Medical School and then served as an assistant, associate and full professor and director in Parker University Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, for eighteen years. Dr. Song’s research has been focusing on understanding the neural mechanisms of chronic pain after nerve injury, bone cancer, diabetes, and exploring molecular targets for treatment of neuropathic, cancer and diabetic pain. His research has resulted in several dozens of publications in the prestigious journals including Anesthesiology, Brain, Cancer Research, FASEB J, JCI, J Neurosci, Nat Neurosci, Pain, etc. patents for chronic pain treatment. Dr. Song also serves as president of CASP / China Chapter of IASP, vice chair of Chinese Physiological Society Pain Translational Research Subcommittee, standing member of committee of Chinese Pharmacological-Anesthetics Society, International Chinese Academy of Anesthesiology, etc. and board member/associate editor of PAIN Reports and chief editor for English of Chinese J Pain Medicine.