Dr. Song completed medical studies in 1983 and an MSc in oncology in 1988 at Hebei Medical College, China. He pursued research in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell dysfunction at Peking Union Medical College (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences) in Beijing, China, where he obtained a PhD in the Department of Physiology in 1993. Dr. Song was later promoted to Associate Professor in the same department. From 1995-2017, Dr. Song held positions as postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Western Ontario in the cardiovascular system and at McGill University in neuroscience. At McGill, he developed a transgenic mouse model with inducible astrocyte-specific expression of human heme oxygenase 1 and made significant contributions to our understanding of schizophrenia and Parkinsonian disorders. He has published over 50 articles and book chapters. Dr. Song is now a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience at McMaster University.