Dr. Jun Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA. Dr. Zhang earned his ScD (doctor of science) from Academia Sinica Beijing (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS) and PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB) from the University of Florida and then completed a fellowship in human molecular genetics at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)/Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. He has dedicated his research efforts to the understanding of molecular genetics in neurovascular diseases, molecular angiogenesis in vascular disorders and tumorigenesis, phosphotyrosine binding (PTB)/PH/FERM domains, the CCM signaling complex (CSC) and its relationship with sex steroids (CmPn/CmP signaling network), and the pharmacology and pathogenesis of cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs).