Dr. Ming Lei joined the department in 2013. He received MB, BS and M Med at Tongji Medical University (Wuhan) in China and D.Phil in Physiology at University of Oxford in 1997. After 4 years experience of postdoctoral fellowship at Universities of Leeds and Oxford, he was awarded the Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship and started his research group in 2001 at University of Oxford. In 2005, he moved to University of Manchester as a senior lecturer and became Reader in Cardiac Physiology in 2012. He has published ~80 original articles and reviews in peer-review journals including those in top journals in the fields of cardiovascular research and physiology. His research has received substantial support from UK government and charity funding bodies including Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Trust and British Heart Foundation. He has been the guest editor of Progress in Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Guest Associate Editor of Frontier in Physiology and has been invited to give plenary/keynote lectures in various international scientific conferences and institutes. He is member of The Physiological Society, American Biophysical Society, British Society For Cardiovascular Research and European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology, European Society of Cardiology.