Xianquan ZhanProfessor and Deputy Director, State Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Anticancer Drugs, Hunan Engineering Laboratory for Structural Biology and Drug Design, Key Laboratory of Cancer Proteomics of Chinese Ministry of Health, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 87 Xiangya Road, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Biography
Dr. Zhan received his undergraduate and graduate training in the fields of preventive
medicine and epidemiology and statistics at the West China University of Medical
Sciences in China during 1989 to 1999. He received his post-doctoral training in
oncology and cancer proteomics for two years at the Cancer Research Institute of
Human Medical University in China. In 2001, he went to the University of Tennessee
Health Science Center (UTHSC) in USA, where he was a post-doctoral researcher
and focused on mass spectrometry and cancer proteomics. Then, he was appointed as
an Assistant Professor of Neurology, UTHSC in 2005. He moved to the Cleveland
Clinic in USA as a Project Scientist/Staff in 2006 where he focused on the studies of
eye disease proteomics and biomarkers. He returned to UTHSC as an Assistant
Professor of Neurology in the end of 2007, engaging in proteomics and biomarker
studies of lung diseases and brain tumors, and initiating the studies of predictive,
preventive, and personalized medicine (PPPM) in cancer. In 2010, he was promoted
to Associate Professor of Neurology, UTHSC. Currently, he is a Professor at Xiangya
Hospital of Central South University in China, the European EPMA National
Representative in China, Associate Editors of BMC Genomics and of BMC Medical
Genomics. He has published 79 peer-reviewed research articles including about 55
articles in the field of disease proteomics and transcriptomics, 7 book chapters, and 2
US patents. His current main research interest focuses on the studies of cancer
proteomics and biomarkers, and the use of modern omics techniques and systems
biology for PPPM in cancer