Professor Hong-Shuo Sun is currently a tenured Full Professor and PhD Supervisor in Departments of Surgery, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. Professor Sun is also a co-chair of Division of Anatomy in Faculty of Medicine, and a course director in Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. He is also a member for Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, Heart and Stroke Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence, Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Program, and Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, in Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He also is a member of the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Professor Sun is currently Editorial Board member of Acta Pharmacologica Sinica and Advanced Neurology. Hong graduated in Zhongshan Medical College, Sun Yat-Sen University, and completed his training as a cardiologist at the First University Hospital of Zhongshan Medical College, Guangzhou, China. He obtained his MSc degree in Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alberta, Canada; and his PhD degree in Neurosciences in University of Calgary, Canada. His postdoctoral training was in University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. He has received many grants from NSERC, HSFC, CIHR, CFI, and NIH IGNIGHT, etc. and published more than 100 papers. His research focus is on studying the role of ion channels in neuroprotection and marine compounds in drug development for stroke and hypoxia.