Professor Zhuang Shimei was born in 1965. She graduated from the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Shanghai University of Medical Science in 1987, received her M. D. in paediatric clinical medicine from the same university in 1992, and was employed as a lecturer at the School of Fundamental Medicine of the Shanghai University of Medical Science until she went abroad on her own in May, 1993.

She has been engaged in research of tumor cells and molecular biology since she left the country. She was a visiting scholar at the Laboratory for Molecular Cancerous Changes at the Department of Medicine and Biochemistry of the Laiden University in the Netherlands, working on the molecular mechanism that causes the cells to wither by apoptin, from August 1993 to December 1994.

She is employed to work at the Laboratory for Medical Molecular Genetics of the Department of Cell Biology in the University of Linxueping, Sweden, doing research on the cancerous molecular mechanism from 1995 to the present. Dr. Zhuang won a second M. D. in cell biology and molecular genetics in 1999, and was invited to be associate professor at the university to continue her research on the molecular mechanism causing cancers, while at the same time conducting research on the medicine-proof mechanism of cancer and the anti-cancer mechanism of natural active elements.