Shuxing Zhang

Dr. Shuxing Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, obtained his Ph.D. in computational and medicinal chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With more than ten years industrial and academic experience in computational drug discovery and development, Dr. Zhang has broad experience in medicinal chemistry, biophysics and computational biology. He has been involved in cancer therapeutics design against numerous protein targets using cutting-edge cheminformatics, bioinformatics and systems biology integrated platforms for molecular interaction pathway analysis, lead identification/optimization, and ADMET studies. His research has earned him the American Chemical Society 2008 Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Scholar Award.