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Chuchu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Zhang received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, where he worked under Dr. David Julius on pain-producing toxins from venomous animals. His research utilized natural toxins to identify and manipulate pain-related signaling mechanisms in sensory neurons. Following this, Dr. Zhang was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Stephen Liberles' lab at Harvard Medical School, where he began his independent research trajectory focusing on nausea. His work has illuminated critical aspects of the area postrema, including cell types and receptors associated with nausea-related neural circuits. Dr. Zhang's lab, which opens in September 2023, will investigate molecular mechanisms underlying nausea and peripheral sensory pathways, with applications in conditions like food allergies and pregnancy.
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