Prof. Dr. Yan Zhu

Prof. Dr. Yan Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

Professor Yan Zhu obtained his PhD from Harvard University and completed postdoctoral trainings at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He started his research career as assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, as one of the founding members and an investigator of the Molecular Cardiology Research Center. He also served as director of Laboratory of Molecular Physiology at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, and director of research operation in Molecular Cardiology Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center. He held several adjunct lecture professorships in China, including Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Nankai University. In 2011, he returned to China as a recruit of the Tianjin “Qian-Ren Ji-Hua” talent program and now works full-time as a professor of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He currently serves as the executive associate director of the Tianjin State Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine and director of R & D Center of Chinese Medicine at Tianjin International Joint Academy of Biomedicine.

Professor Zhu has been engaged in cardiovascular studies by combining molecular biology, physiology and pharmacology. His research has been supported by grants from NIH RO1 in USA and MOST 973 project in China. He has published more than 70 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals such as Science, Nature Medicine, and PNAS. His current research focuses on phenotype-based drug screen and discovery from herbal and other natural resources, applying systems biology and network pharmacology techniques to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of complex formula of Chinese medicine in chronic, metabolic and degenerative diseases such as thrombosis, diabetes, and aging. 

Updated 28 November 2023