Jian Zhang MD, PhD

Jian Zhang, MD. PhD. is a professor of Medical School at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Deputy Director of SUSTech- King’s College London joint Medical School, and a Dean of Zhicheng College. Dr Zhang received his MD degree from the Department of Medicine Tianjin Medical University, China, in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2001. After a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, Dr. Zhang served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2011, his team returned to China and set up the 1st Center for Translational Medicine in Southwest China. From 2011 to 2016, he was a professor and director for the Key Laboratory of Longevity and Aging-related Diseases, Ministry of Education, China. In 2016, he joined SUSTech as the deputy director of the medical school planning office. His research interests have focused on studying aging-related diseases, including aging-associated cancer biology. He has expertise in tumor microenvironment, chemoresistance, and metastasis. He is the author/co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications and a reviewer for the Department of Defense panel of cancer Pathobiology, the Cancer Research UK program, and Australia Prostate Cancer Research Program and Key Projects in the National Science Foundation. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the “Medical Oncology” associate editor.