ZHANG Tianyu--Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Faculty

ZHANG Tianyu

Title：Principal Investigator

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Email：zhang_tianyu@gibh.ac.cn

Address：No.190 Kaiyuan Road, Guangzhou Science Park, Luogang District, Guangzhou 510530

Study/Work Experience

2012 – now	Tuberculosis Lab,State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health , Chinese Academy of Sciences / Direction Leader
2010 – now	Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Principal Investigator
2005 – 2010	Johns Hopkins University/Post-doctoral fellow
2002 – 2005	The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &The Peking Union Medical College/Ph.D
1999 – 2002	Capital Normal University/M.S
1995 – 1999	Capital Normal University/B.S

Research Areas

Dr. Zhang’s research areas are: 1) Discovery and development of antibacterial agents by special models developed by his group, especially for antimycobacterial drugs.2)Mycobacterial (and other bacterial) genetic manipulations and the mechanisms of action and resistance of antibiotics. 3) Diagnosis of live mycobacteria in clinical samples and test the drug susceptibility efficiently using clinical isolates. 4) Therapeutic tuberculosis vaccine (s).5)Functional Genomics of mycobacteria. 6) Pharmacogenomics of antibiotics.

Patents:

He has filed 41 innovation patents (with 22 authorized already ), 2 utility model patents authorized and 2 appearance patents authorized, and 5 PCTs. One PCT was authorized in USA (transferred to a company) and another one was authorized in South Africa, Brazil, USA, Japan, Indonesia and Philippines (transferred to a

Academic Performance

2012.03 - 2014.12	Selected person of “Introduction of Foreign Outstanding Talents” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017.04 - 2021.06	"Scientific and Technological Innovation Leading Talent "of 2016 Guangdong Special Support Plan
2018	The Fifth Guangdong Provincial Patent Award
2019.01 - 2021.06	"Excellent Talent" in Huangpu District of Guangzhou
2019.01 - now	"Excellent Expert" in Guangzhou
2020.04 - now	"Young and Middle-aged Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation"of 2020, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
2020.11 - 2023.11	High-level Talent " of the People's Republic of China
2021.01	The "2020 Industry-University-Research Institute Cooperation and Innovation Award (Individual)" of China Industry-University-Research Institute
2021.06 - 2023.12	"Outstanding Talent" in Huangpu District of Guangzhou
2021.9	Second prize in 2021, the 10th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Guangdong · Guangzhou competition area) & the 6th Yangcheng "Science and Innovation Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
2021.12	Second rate prize of innovation award of 2021 invention and entrepreneurship award of China Invention Association

Representative Papers

He has published ≥ 126 articles, including 78 first or (co) corresponding author articles (68 SCI, published in journals such as Am J Respir Crit Care Med, Nat Microbiol, Nat Commun, Biosens Bioelectron, Cell Chem Bio, Acta Pharm Sin B, Clin Microbiol Infect, Org Lett, J Med Chem, Eur J Med Chem, Antimicrob Agents Chemother). As a co-author, have participated in the publication of ≥ 49 articles published in journals such as Nat Microbiol, Nat Commun.