In July 2002, Zhou Bin graduated from the Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University with an MD. In July 2006, he graduated from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College with a PhD. From 2006 to 2010, he conducted postdoctoral research at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In 2009, he was a lecturer and Research Associate at Harvard Medical School. From September 2010 to August 2016, he served as a research fellow and principal investigator of the Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Since September 2016, he has been a research fellow and principal investigator at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SIBS, CAS. He has been awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, ISHR's Outstanding Investigator Prize, Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship, China Youth Science and Technology Award, Young Scientist Award of CAS, Tan Jiazhen Life Science Innovation Award, Shulan Medical Youth Award, etc.