Yingkai Zhang received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Duke University in 2000. His postdoctoral research was conducted at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego from 2000 to 2003. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005), the NYSTAR James D. Watson Young Investigator Award (2005), and Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (2006).