Dr. Zhang received his education, major in clinical medicine in Bengbu medical college. After five years of residency training, he became an attending surgeon in 1998. After three years of microsurgery training, he received MS degree at Fudan University in 2001. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Mehran M. Sadeghi at Yale School of Medicine. His research interest focuses on surgical animal models of human disease and novel molecular imaging biomarkers