Dr. Zhang is professor and director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at SBP Medical Discovery Institute. Prior to that, he was professor and director of the Signature Program in Neuroscience & Behavioral Disorders at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore as well as professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Steenbock Professor in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Zhang received his MD and MS in China and PhD in Canada. He is a pioneer in stem cells and regenerative medicine. He has developed technology to guide human stem cells to functionally specialized nerve cell types that are impaired in many neurological and psychiatric conditions with 25 awarded patents and several pending applications. He established the Stem Cell & Genome Editing Core at the UW-Madison and Duke-NUS, serving investigators on campus and beyond. He has also developed stem cell-based platforms for studying neural degeneration and testing drugs for neurological diseases. In parallel, he is developing cell therapy for neurological diseases like Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury and stroke. Dr. Zhang was a founding member of the WiCell Institute and co-founder of BrainXell, Inc and BrainXell Therapeutics, Inc.
Education
MD, Wenzhou Medical University, China
MS, Shanghai Medical University, China
PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Canada