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Zhang Xu, neurobiologist, born in 1961 in Nanjing, was graduated from Fourth Military Medical University in 1985. After his undergraduate training in medicine, he worked as a teaching assistant in Department of Neurobiology, Fourth Military Medical University, and was then taken an eightmonth training of electromicroscopy in Department of Biology, Stockholm University, Sweden. In 1990 he studied in Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and received Ph.D. in 1994. He returned to Institute of Neuroscience, Fourth Military Medical University in 1994, and was appointed as lecturer, associate professor and, then, researcher. He is working as a principal researcher of Laboratory of Sensory System at Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science since 1999. He was Granted “award for Distinguished Young Scientists in China” (type A and C in 1995 and 1998 respectively). He is a principal researcher of “Award for Creative Research Team of National Nature Science Foundation of China” since 2003. He is awarded “Prize for Young Chinese in Sciences and Technology” in 1998. He was also awarded “Prize for Progress in Sciences and Technology of PLA (first class)” in 1992 and 1996 respectively, and “Prize for Progress in Sciences and Technology of Shanghai (second class)” in 2004. He is the vicepresident of Shanghai Neuroscience Society, and chairs the Neuroendocrinology Committee, Chinese Neuroscience Society. He is the associate editorinchief of the journal of Chinese Neuroscience Society, Neuroscience Bulletin. He also serves as a reviewer for several international journals and also for the international research foundations.
Dr. Zhangs study is focused on the molecular and cellular biology of primary sensory neurons and the mechanism of pain. Seventy research articles and fifteen reviews are published in international journals including the prominent research journals such as Cell, Neuron and Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. These papers have been cited 3037 times. He is invited to write six chapters in international books and to give lectures in 22 international meetings. Several findings have been written into the classic textbooks, The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology (seventh edition) and “Wall and Melzacks Textbook of Pain (fourth and fifth editions).
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