Yanping Zhang
Professor
University of North Carolina, USA
USA
Biography
Dr. Yanping Zhang, Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fudan University in China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA. Dr. Zhang performed post-graduate training at UNC Chapel Hill, and he became a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas in 2000. Dr. Zhang moved his laborator to UNC Chapel Hill in 2004, where he moved his rank to full professor in 2010. Dr. Zhang has made important contributions to cancer research through many groundbreaking works about tumor suppressor p53. His work has been published in high-impact journals such as Cell, Science, Cancer Cell, Molecular Cell, and PNAS, etc.,
Research Interest
Radiation Oncology, Cancer