Jin Zhang

In 2015, Zhang relocated her lab to UCSD, where she is a professor in the departments of Pharmacology, Bioengineering, and Chemistry and Biochemistry. She is a member of the Moores Cancer Center. Zhang is also director and cofounder of the Bio-Optical Probe Advancement Center at UCSD.

Following her postdoc at UCSD, Zhang joined the faculty in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2003. At Johns Hopkins, she was a member of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2013, she was promoted to full professor in the departments of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and Department of Oncology, and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Zhang was born in Beijing, China. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1995. She completed her Ph.D. with David G. Lynn at the University of Chicago in 2000, and conducted postdoctoral research with Roger Y. Tsien and Susan S. Taylor at the University of California, San Diego.

Jin Zhang (Chinese: 张瑾 ; pinyin: Zhāng Jǐn ; born February 29, 1972) is a Chinese-American biochemist. She is a professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, and biomedical engineering at the University of California, San Diego.