Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions for Drug Discovery

Jian Zhang is a Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is also the Director of the Medicinal Bioinformatics Center. His fields of research include first-in-class drug design and chemical biology, mainly pertaining to protein-protein interactions and allostery and their application in drug discovery. He received a BM degree in Pharmacology from Peking University and a PhD from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.