Name: ZHANG Wenqing

Introduction:

Date of birth: April, 1965

Place of birth: Anqing, Anhui Province, China

Education:

1996, Graduated from The Fourth Military Medical University, Ph.D.

1986, Graduated from Southern Medical University, B.M.

Working Experiences:

2017-present, School of Medicine, South China University of Technology

2007-2017, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University

2006-2007, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

2001-2004, The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Imperial College London, UK

1996-2001, School of Basic Medical Sciences, The First Military Medical University

Present Positions:

The executive director of the Chinese Zoological Society and the Chinese Zebrafish Society 

The committee member of the Chinese Society for Developmental Biology (in preparation)

The committee member of the Chinese Blood Physiological Society

Research Interests: 

Hematopoietic development, disease modeling and drug screening  

Achievements: 

Prof. ZHANG has completed a large-scale (~3000 genomes) ENU-based forward genetic screening in search of hematopoietic defect zebrafish mutants and participated in China alliance of zebrafish chromosome 1 genome knockout using CRISPR/Cas9 technology to knockout 50 genes of 1418 genes on chromosome 1 and 10 leukemia-driven genes. He host 8 projects supported by the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project supported by the National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program), 1 project supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program), 1 team project from Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. His work has been published in 30 SCI papers (the first or corresponding author published 16 articles, co-published 14 articles) including BLOOD, LEUKEMIA, DEVELOPMENT, JBC and granted 4 patents for disease modeling of zebrafish.