Chun-Mei Zhao is Co-principal Investigator of Research Group of Experimental Surgery and Pharmacology at Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU. She graduated from University of Lund, Sweden (Licentiate and PhD) and has worked as senior researcher, researcher, associate professor and professor at NTNU and St. Olavs Hospital.  She is member of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.  She has published 117 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (until Feb. 2019).