BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

NAME: MIN ZHANG

POSITION TITLE: Director, Respiratory Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University

EDUCATION/TRAINING

A. Personal statement

Min Zhang is mainly engaged in the areas of chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma and lung cancer. She has obtained more than 1 million funds from the Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Commission and other scientific research funds. She has published several high-level academic papers in international journals as either first author or corresponding author.

B. Positions and honors

Positions

2012-2020Director of the Respiratory Department of The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University

C. Representative publications (selected publications in last 5 years; 5–10)

1.Min Zhang, Shijun Lin, Wendi Xiao, Danhua Chen, Dongxia Yang, Youming Zhang. Applications of single-cell sequencing for human lung cancer: the progress and the future perspective. AIMS Biophysics. 2017,4(2):210-221

2.Min Zhang, Zhiye Fang, Yun Zhang, Zhigang Liu, Youming Zhang. Systemic Approaches for the Potential Mechanisms of Common Respiratory Diseases Caused by Air Pollution in China. Lung Dis. Treat. 2015,1:1.

3.Xiao W, Chen X, Liu L, Shu Y, Zhang M, Zhong Y. Role of protein arginine methyltransferase 5 in human cancers. Biomed Pharmacother. 2019,114:108790. DOI:10.1016/j.biopha.2019.108790

4.Xiao W, Zhong Y, Wu L, Yang D, Ye S and Zhang M. Prognostic value of microRNAs in lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Mol Clin Oncol. 2019; 10:67-77. DOI:10.3892/mco.2018.1763

5.5.Si Chen, Yuting Han, Hao Chen, Jing Wu, Min Zhang. Bcl11b Regulates IL-17 Through the TGF-β/Smad Pathway in HDM-Induced Asthma. Allergy Asthma Immunol Res. 2018,10(5):543-554.

6.Congli Jiang, Xiaoqin Fan, Meng Li, Peng Xing, Xiaoyu Liu, Yulan Wu, Min Zhang, Pingchang Yang, Zhigang Liu. Characterization of Der f 29, a new allergen from Dermatophagoides farina. Am J Transl Res. 2015,7(7):1303-1313