Ben Zhan Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxic
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Biography
Dr. BenZhan Benny Zhu is a Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences CAS Beijing China. He has received a PhD degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel in 1999. He has completed his MS degree in organic synthesis in Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics CAS China in 1989. He received Outstanding Young Investigator Award from NSF China in 2009. He is serving as an editorial board member for several reputed journals like Chem Res Toxicol and published more than 30 papers in such journals like PNAS. His research findings have been cited and discussed in the classic textbook Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine Ed Halliwell Gutteridge 4th Edition 2007.
Research Interest
His research interests include Chemistry & Toxicology of free radicals, redoxactive transition metal ions (iron and copper), dietary antioxidants and environmental pollutants (chlorinated phenols and their quinone metabolites, dithiocarbamates).
