Dr. Hongjie Zhang

Prof. Dr. Hong-Jie Zhang is director and a professor at the School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China. He graduated from Yunnan University with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1985. He obtained his master’s (1988) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees in phytochemistry at Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a faculty member (assistant/associate/full professor) at KIB from 1991 to 2002, and a research faculty member (research assistant/associate professor) at the College of Pharmacy, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from 2003 to 2011. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University as an associate professor in December 2011 and became a professor in September 2018. He has more than 30 years of research experience in the isolation, identification, structure elucidation, analysis, synthesis, and biological evaluation of small molecules of natural products, leading to the publication of more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and dozens of granted patents. His current research interest is focused on antiviral and anticancer drug discovery and development from natural resources, as well as the development of botanical dietary supplements from herbal medicines. He is a member of several scientific societies, such as the American Chemical Society, American Society of Pharmacognosy, the Society of Hong Kong Scholars, China Association of Chinese Medicine, and Botanical Society of China (BSC).