How Do I Earn a Genetics PhD?
Professor Zhang Kang, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Genetics, was selected as the third batch of "Thousand Talents Program" in the country. On July 30, 2010, he was employed as a visiting professor at Sichuan University. His research interests include finding new genes and treatments for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and hereditary retinal diseases.
Zhang Kang
(PhD in Genetics)
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- Chinese name
- Zhang Kang
- Country of Citizenship
- China
- People
- Han nationality
- Occupation
- PhD in Genetics
- Professor Zhang Kang, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Genetics, was selected as the third batch of "Thousand Talents Program" in the country. On July 30, 2010, he was employed as a visiting professor at Sichuan University. His research interests include finding new genes and treatments for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and hereditary retinal diseases.
- He is currently the director of the Institute of Human Genomic Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and a tenured professor of ophthalmology and human genetics. Professor Zhang Kang received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Sichuan University and then went to the United States. He became the first dual-degree doctor of medical and genetics from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The first eye resident doctor from New China at the Wilma Eye Center at Perkins University. His research interests include finding new genes and treatments for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and hereditary retinal diseases. Received a number of funds from the National Institutes of Health. He has published important articles in many prestigious journals, among which the article on HTRA1 gene is the main susceptible gene for macular degeneration was selected by Science Magazine as one of the top ten advances in science in 2006.
- On July 30, 2010, he was employed as a visiting professor at Sichuan University.
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