Zhao Zhang, PhD, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure, effective January 1, 2025.
This outstanding honor represents Zhang’s leadership and achievements, the impact he is making in his field, and his contributions to the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, the School of Medicine, and Duke University.
As the inaugural Duke Science and Technology Scholar, Zhang studies transposons and extrachromosomal circular DNA during tumorigenesis, aiming to harness the knowledge obtained from his lab to develop new therapeutic methods.