Dr. Jiahuai Han got his bachelor and master degrees at Peking University, China, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Brussels, Belgium. He was a research fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. He went from being a research associate to a full professor at the Scripps Research Institute, USA. Currently, he is a professor at Xiamen University, China. His research interest is the inflammatory signaling pathways and cell death. His current work is on disease pathogenesis with a focus on how cell death and host inflammatory responses contribute to the progression of sepsis.