Juan Zhang
China Pharmaceutical University, China
Biography
Juan Zhang is currently working as an Associate Professor of Microbiology & Biochemical Pharmaceutics. She has obtained her BSc in Microbiological Pharmacy, MSc and Doctor’s degree (PhD) from China Pharmaceutical University. In 2007, she was trained at Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London as a co-supervised PhD Student and a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) from 2013 to 2014. She was awarded with Sanofi-Aventis Young Scientist Prize in Biological Medicine in 2011 and 333-Project Talent of Jiangsu Province in 2013, Young-and-Middle Aged Leading Academic Professor of Jiangsu Province in 2014. She is an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics and Youth Member of Jiangsu Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Currently her research focuses on the discovery of novel antibodies using phage display fully human antibody library and Hybridoma Technology. One of the antibodies she invented was transferred and evaluated in cell therapy. A number of bispecific antibodies she designed exhibit promising anti-cancer efficacy.