Prof. Huang earned his BS degree in Genetics and Genetic Engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai and went to the USA through the “China and United States Biochemistry Examination and Application (CUSBEA)” program to pursue his PhD study.  He earned his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Thereafter, Prof. Huang received his postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health in the USA.  During this period, Prof. Huang was the first to report that the two major intracellular transportation systems of mammalian cells, the microtubule- and actin-filament-based system directly interact with each other through their motor proteins, kinesin and myosin.  Later, he established his own laboratory at the University of Hong Kong.  Prof. Huang’s current research focuses on synthetic biology and intracellular transportation.  Prof. Huang have created novel genetic circuits for the control of gene expression and hence biological behavior.  He also generated several vaccines by using synthetic biology approach and programmed bacteria as tumor therapeutic drug.  Prof. Huang was the first researcher in the greater China region to publish a paper in synthetic biology in Science.