Hu Pei, MD, is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Director, Phase I Unit, Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical PK/PD, Clinical Pharmacological Research Center, Peking Union Medical College Hospital. She has engaged in the teaching and research of clinical pharmacology, primarily in early clinical research and quantitative pharmacology of new drugs, for two decades. Professor Pei previously engaged in postdoctoral research at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington (US) through funding from the US National Institutes of Health Fogarty Fellowship, and has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles. She earned her Doctorate in Medicine from Peking Union Medical College.