Yuesheng Zhang

Biography

Dr. Yuesheng Zhang joined the faculty of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in 2003 and has been a Professor of Oncology since 2007. He has also been a Senior Member of the Roswell Park Graduate Division, the State University of New York Graduate College since 2003. He came to RPCI from the University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center, where he served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine.Dr. Zhang earned his MD in 1984 and MS in 1988 from Zhejiang University School of Medicine (formerly Zhejiang Medical University, Hangzhou, China), and his PhD in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences in 1996 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, USA), where he also completed postdoctoral fellowship and served as a junior faculty member.Dr. Zhang is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Dr. Zhang is also a member of the editorial boards of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, and Journal of Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis. He has served on many NIH study sections, and has been an Honorary Professor in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Hebei Medical University (Shijiazhuang, China) since 2006.

Research Interest

Identification and development of cancer chemopreventive agents and chemopreventive targets