Zheng Zhao

Zheng is a Senior Scientist in Prof. Dr. Phil Bourne’s lab at the University of Virginia School of Data Science and Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Zheng earned his Ph.D in Bioinformatics from University of Science and Technology of China (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Haiyan Liu; Thesis Title: Multiple Levels of Theory Approaches to QM/MM Studies of Enzyme Mechanisms). Currently, Zheng’s research is about Health and Biomedical Data Science, striving to develop new methods and applications of computational system pharmacology and machine/deep learning for drug screening, target prediction and validation, and polypharmacology; carrying out disease-associated studies in drug design and discovery, repurposing, mechanisms of action, etc; and contributing to treating intractable diseases, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, Melanoma, and Leukemia.