Professor Hong Zhou is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney and Head of the Molecular Bone Biology Laboratory at the ANZAC Research Institute, Sydney. She got her medical degree in 1983 from Ningxia Medical University, China and and did a Ph.D. with Professor Jack Martin at the University of Melbourne, Australia (1992). Her scientific interests include glucocorticoid action on bone in the use and analysis of animal models of normal and abnormal bone metabolism, skeletal development, bone and cartilage biology, bone regulated systematic matabolic metabolism, autoimmune arthritis, surgically induced osteoarthritis.