Yun Zhang

Biography

Prof. Yun Zhang, born in July 1963, Kunming, Yunnan, China, got his bachelor’s degree from East China University of Science and Technology in 1984. He worked as a research assistant in Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 1984 to 1987, and after then he became a graduated student of CAS. As a PhD student of a joint training program and a postdoctoral fellow, he worked in Pasteur Institute at Paris from 1991 to 1995 under the direction from Prof. Cassian Bon. He was given his PhD by supervisor Prof. Li-Ming Shi (an academician of CAS) in 1992. After graduation, he also worked in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1998 to 1999 as a visiting scholar. He started to work as a full professor from 1997 and a Principal Investigator of CAS from 1999, respectively. Now, he is the vice-director of the academic committee of KIZ, CAS, the editorial member of TOXICON, the official journal of the International Society on Toxicology (IST), the associate editor-in-chief of Zoological Research, the council expert of Chinese FDA, and the director of the Toxicology committee of Chinese Society of Toxicology.

Research Interest

Deciphering the human diseases mechanisms by using animal toxin as natural probes and developing novel animal toxins into clinical drugs.