Baoting Zhang is the Vice Dean of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor’s from Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1997, her Master’s from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2000, and her MD from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2003. She served as the Attending Physician of the Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University (2003–2005), a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2006–2008), a Postdoctoral Fellow of the University of Sydney (2008–2009), and an Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2009–2010). She served as an Associate Fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2011–2017), an Assistant Professor (2011–2017), an Associate Professor (2017–2023), an Assistant Dean (2018–2022), and an Associate Dean (2022-). She has been a professor at the School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, since 2023. Her research focuses on the mechanism of interaction between key targets and small molecules in muscle wasting diseases and bone metabolic diseases, as well as the discovery and targeted modification of natural products and aptamer-lead compounds.