Dr. Cheng Zhu is Regents’ Professor of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University and holds the J. Erskine Love Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering. His research interest is in the molecular biophysics of the immune and vascular systems, with focuses in the mechanobiology of lymphocytes and platelets. He pioneered the analysis of in situ interactions at the junctional interface between molecules anchored to two apposing surfaces, i.e., two-dimensional interactions. His lab conceptualized and/or demonstrated several types of mechanical regulation of protein unbinding and unfolding (catch bonds, force-history, cyclic mechanical reinforcement, and dynamic catch) in a variety of receptor–ligand systems. Dr. Zhu founded the joint doctoral program with Peking University in 2007 and has been director of that program since then. Dr. Zhu received the Harold Lamport Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society in 1991, Yuan-Cheng Fung Award from American Mechanical Engineer Society in 1992, Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from National Science Foundation in 1993, and Award in Hemarheology and Microcirculation from International Clinical Society of Hemarheology in 2005. Dr. Zhu is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.