Zhi-Qi Xiong received his Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy in 1992 from West China University of Medical Sciences (Sichuan University); his MS in 1995 from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and his Ph.D. in 2000 from Baylor College of Medicine. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. James O. McNamara at Duke University Medical Center from 2000 to 2003. He is currently an Investigator and the head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of Disease at ION. He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor from CAS. His Research Interests include the molecular and genetic mechanisms of intellectual disability.