Jian Zhang

Jian Zhang is a Distinguished Professor and Head of the Medicinal Chemistry & Bioinformatics Center at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. In addition, he is also Dean of the School of Pharmacy at Ningxia Medical University, a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in China, and founder of Nutshell Therapeutics. In the last decade, his research has been concerned with drug design, medicinal chemistry, and chemical biology, especially target identification and first-in-class allosteric drug discovery. He has a track record of more than 200 publications in high-ranked scientific journals, including patents and patent applications, and numerous invited talks worldwide. He has received some awards such as the ACS Excellent Research Advisor, the Biomedical Innovation Award by the Chinese Pharmaceutical Society, and One of China's Top Ten Science and Technology Young Scientist in 2017.