Yunjiao Zhang

Professor Zhang currently serves as Vice Dean of the School of Medicine of SCUT. She is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2022), Guangdong Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award (2024), Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund (2018), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014), and CAS President’s Special Award (2012). With a multidisciplinary research background spanning materials science, life sciences, and medicine, Professor Zhang has long been engaged in cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, dedicated to the development of novel targeted degradation technologies. Addressing major challenges in health maintenance and disease prevention/control, and aiming to solve clinical dilemmas that traditional drugs struggle to tackle, she established the NanoPRO proteomics database for nanostructure-protein homeostasis regulation and the NanoTAC nanotechnology platform for targeted degradation of pathogenic proteins and elucidated their molecular mechanisms in degrading pathogenic proteins and regulating organelle interaction networks, and explored their therapeutic efficacy in major diseases such as tumors and inflammatory disorders. Based on this fundamental research, she has published over 70 SCI-indexed papers, including 46 as the first or corresponding author in prestigious international academic journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials. Her work has been cited more than 36000 times, with multiple papers listed as "ESI Highly Cited Papers." She has been invited to deliver over 70 keynote speeches and invited talks at high-level domestic and international conferences in the field. She serves as a Young Editorial Board Member for journals including Exploration and Smart Materials in Medicine, and a Guest Editor for Smart Materials in Medicine. Her academic affiliations include Young Member of the Nanobiology Branch of the Biophysical Society of China, and Standing Committee Member of the Molecular Imaging Branch of the Guangdong Precision Medicine Application Association.