Dr. Z. Hong Zhou is currently a professor in the Department
of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at the UCLA David Geffen
School of Medicine and the founding director of the Electron Imaging Center for
Nanomachines of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA. He
received a B.S. in physics and an M.S. in solid-state physics from the
University of Science and Technology of China in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
He obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
in 1995. He was a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and received numerous
awards, including the Basil O’Connor Scholar Award, the Established
Investigator Award of the American Heart Association, the Burton Award, and the
KH Kuo Award of Distinguished Scientist. He combines expertise in structural
biology, microbiology, computational biology, and bioinformatics to address
fundamental questions in biology.
