Journal of Neonatal Biology

Yi Zhang

Biography

Dr. Zhang received his BS from China Agriculture University in 1984, his Ph.D from Florida State University in 1995.  His postdoctoral training was at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of UMDNJ where he identified and characterized the Sin3 and the NuRD histone deacetylase complexes.  He became an independent investigator at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999, a Howard Hughes Investigator in 2005, and the Kenan Distinguished Professor in 2009.  He moved to Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Fred Rosen Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in 2012.  Dr. Zhang has received a number of honors and awards, including the Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award from AACR, the Kimmel Scholar Award from the Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Senior Investigator Award of the Chinese Biological Investigators’ Society.

Research Interest

 Cancer and blood Disorder.