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Faculty
Brown, Stuart I. MD
Brody, Barbara MPH
Ferreyra, Henry A. MD
Freeman, William R. MD
Goldbaum, Michael H. MD
Granet, David B. MD
Haw, Weldon, MD
Heichel, Chris MD
Kikkawa, Don O. MD

Korn, Bobby S. MD, PhD
Levi, Leah MD

Lee, Jeffrey E. MD
Medeiros, Felipe MD PhD
Nguyen, Thao MD
Robbins, Shira MD

Savino, Peter J. MD
Schanzlin, David J. MD
Weinreb, Robert N. MD
Zhang, Kang MD, PhD

Research Faculty
Ayyagari, Radha PhD
Bartsch, Dirk- Uwe PhD

Lindsey, James D. PhD
Liu, John H K PhD
Sample, Pamela A. PhD

Silva, Gabriel A. MSc PhD

Zangwill, Linda PhD

Research Scientist

Bowd, Christoper PhD
Cheng, Lingyun MD
Duncan, Robert PhD
Ju, Won-Kyu PhD
Kozak, Igor MD, PhD
Vasireddy, Vidyullatha PhD





 



Kang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.


Professor of Ophthalmology
& Human Genetics

Curriculum Vitae

Kang Zhang Lab
Institute for Genomic Medicine

Kang Zhang, MD, PhD obtained his M.D. with Magna Cum Laude honors from Harvard Medical School and MIT joint MD program and his PhD in genetics from Harvard University. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University and his retina fellowship at University of Utah. He was a faculty at Johns Hopkins University from 1999-2000, Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 2000-2002, University of Utah from 2002-2008. He is currently Professor of Ophthalmology and Human Genetics at University of California San Diego.

Among his honors include Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research; Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award from Research to Prevent Blindness; Macula Society membership; American Society of Clinical Investigation membership; Charles Schepens Award for Excellence in Retina Research; and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Clinician Scientist Award.

His research focuses on novel disease gene targets and therapies in macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and inherited retinal degenerations. He has numerous grants from National Institute of Health, and other foundations and holds 3 patents. Dr. Zhang has published or co-authored more than 70 peer reviewed manuscripts in top journals including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Cell, PNAS, and JCI - covering a wide range of topics in genetics, molecular biology, and clinical trials in ophthalmology.

Dr. Zhang is bilingual in Chinese.