Weiping Han obtained his PhD in Physiology from Cornell University in 1996. He did his postdoctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh and HHMI/UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In 2003, he was promoted to Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Basic Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he studied molecular mechanisms of hormone secretion and signaling. Currently he is Deputy Director of SBIC with concurrent appointment as Head of LMM. He is also Research Director at Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology; Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at National University of Singapore and Program in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS. His research interest centers around metabolic homeostasis in health and disease.His research aims to understand the molecular basis of diabetes and its complications, to discover and validate targets for drug development, and to develop animal models for evaluation of therapeutic interventions. His lab uses molecular genetics, cell biology, and physiology techniques to analyze genetically modified animals and cell lines.