Dr. Ji Zhang received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he conducted his graduate thesis on the role of mitochondrial quality control machinery during red blood cell maturation. He pursued his post-doctoral training with Dr. Craig Thompson, a world-renowned investigator in the field of cancer metabolism, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, to expand his research repertoire on nonessential amino acid metabolism in cancer. He became an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2017. He has received several nationwide career development awards, including the Emerging Scientist Award from the Children's Cancer Research Fund, the Scholar Award from St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and the Scholar Award for Junior Faculty from the American Society of Hematology.
