Wenyong Zhang is an Associate Dean and a Professor of the School of Medicine at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Bowdoin College in the United States. Afterward, he was awarded the NIH Medical Scientist Fellowship, and entered the prestigious “Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—Tri-College MD-PhD Program” to pursue a dual degree of MD and PhD in Biology, and graduated with honors in 2004, receiving The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology. He graduated with honors in 2004 and received The Herman L. Jacobius Prize in Pathology. He served as Associate Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory in the Department of Pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and as Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory in the Department of Pathology at New York Medical College Hospital. He is a Class B Talent of the Shenzhen Peacock Program, an expert of the National Science and Technology Pool, an expert of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Management Information System Expert Pool, an expert of the Guangdong Science and Technology Department, an expert of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission's major project evaluation, and a director and expert committee member of Beijing 4P Health Research Institute.