Vice president

Dr. Zhang received his BS in Pharmacology from Peking University in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. Dr. Zhang joined the faculty at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine as a Professor in 2009 and was rewarded with the Changjiang Scholars Program in 2017. Dr. Zhang serves as the Director of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Artificial-Intelligence Sciences at Shanghai Jiaotong University and is the Dean of the School of Pharmacy at Ningxia Medical University. Dr. Zhang has published 150+ peer-reviewed papers (e.g. Nat Chem Biol, Nat Mach Intell) as the corresponding author, is an inventor of 20 issued patents, and hundreds of international invited talks. He was the top-ten young scientist in science and technology in China in 2017, was elected a Member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 2020, and was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an Excellent Research Advisor of the American Chemical Society in 2022. He is the Associate Editor for RSC Medicinal Chemistry and serves on the editorial board for Medicinal Research Review and other seven international journals.