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Wenjun Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry from Nanjing University in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. Following his doctorate, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School from 2009 to 2011. Professor Zhang is a Pew Biomedical Scholar and has received several prestigious awards, including the Hellman Foundation Faculty Award and the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, both awarded in 2015, and the Paul Saltman Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry in 2016. He was also honored as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2016. As the Director of the Agilent Biodesign Program, he focuses on biomolecular engineering applications that target human health and bioenergy. His research aims to engineer microbial cells to synthesize a wide array of important natural products and to develop new research tools for natural product research, with a particular focus on biosynthesis and the discovery of bioactive small molecules.
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Oversees departmental activities and initiatives.
Agilent Biodesign Program • Berkeley, CA
Leads research initiatives focused on biomolecular engineering applications.
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