In 1998, Dr. Cheng finished her seven-year program in the Department of Foreign Languages of China Medical University with a bachelor's degree in Medicine, and was awarded Doctor of Medicine by Kobe University in March 2003. From June 2003 to July 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA. Since July 2008, he has been a research fellow, doctoral supervisor and principal investigator of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.