Dr. Xiaoting Zhang
Email: zhangxt@ucmail.uc.edu
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Dr. Xiaoting Zhang is a professor of Cancer Biology and Thomas Boat Endowed Chair at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Iowa, followed by postdoctoral studies with Dr. Robert G. Roeder at Rockefeller University. Dr. Zhang is a leading researcher at the forefront of both breast cancer and RNA nanotechnology fields and published studies in high-impact journals such as Mol Cell, PNAS, JBC, Cancer Research, EMBO J, ACS Nano, RNA Nanotechnology and Therapeutics by CRC press, Cell Reports, etc. Notably, he is the editor of the book “Estrogen Receptor and Breast Cancer (1st ed, 2019)” per invitation by Springer Nature to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the discovery of ER. Dr. Zhang has 20+ years of research experience in cancer biology leading the studies that discovered the estrogen receptor coactivator MED1 and its crosstalk with HER2 as a novel key mechanism in breast cancer metastasis and treatment resistance, and is the inventor of a patented RNA nanotechnology approach to overcome breast cancer metastasis and therapy resistance.
Dr. Zhang’s lab has been supported by grants and awards from major federal, national and local breast cancer funding agencies including NCI, DoD, American Cancer Society and Komen for the Cure Foundation, Breast Cancer Alliance, Ride Cincinnati Foundation, and Ohio Cancer Research. He is a regularly invited grant reviewer for NCI, DoD, ACS, Komen, National Science Foundation, AACR, AAAS, as well as international grant organizations such as Hong Kong Research Grant Council, the Marsden Fund of Royal Society of New Zealand, and Worldwide Cancer Research. Dr. Zhang is the director of the Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) which is composed of 20 outstanding basic, clinical, and translational research groups at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He has been awarded the first Joanne and Michael Masin Young Investigator award, Hormone Research Foundation C. H. Li Memorial Scholar Award, Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award, DoD Idea Award, and named an American Cancer Society Research Scholar. Dr. Zhang is a founding council member, treasurer, and chair of the nomination committee of the ISRNN.