Professor Jing Zhou

Contact Information

jzhou@bjmu.edu.cn

Research Interests

Mechanobiology of vascular homeostasis and their roles and interventions in the development of vascular diseases.

Biography

Jing Zhou is a Tenured Professor, Boya Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Associate Chair of the Department at Peking University. She serves as Principal Investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Vascular Homeostasis and Remodeling, and is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Education and Professional Experience: Professor Zhou received her Ph.D. from the College of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, in 2006. She subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Division of Biomedical Engineering, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan; and the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From 2011, she was appointed as Assistant Project Scientist at UCSD’s Institute of Engineering in Medicine. In 2014, she joined Peking University Health Science Center as a Principal Investigator under the “Peking University Hundred Talents Program.”

Teaching: Human Physiology, Integrity and Regulation of Body Function, Analysis and Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Research Achievements

Her research focuses on 1) In vivo and in vitro reconstruction of the vascular mechanical microenvironment and its interactions with cells (Adv Sci 2024; Circ Res 2022; Adv Sci 2022, etc.); 2) Discovery, functional characterization, and mechanistic elucidation of novel mechanosensory molecules (Nat Commun 2023; Circ Res 2023; Bioact Mater 2022, etc.); Mechanisms of vascular homeostasis, pathogenesis of vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, and therapeutic strategies (Circ Res 2024; Small 2022; PNAS 2021, etc.). She has been awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A), the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Category B), the Young Scientists Fund (Category C), two Major Research Plan grants, and three General Program grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). She has also contributed as a key investigator to NSFC Innovative Research Group projects, integrated Major Research Plan projects, and National Key R&D Program projects supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

Graduate Mentorship

Professor Zhou currently supervises 8 graduate students. She has trained 15 Ph.D. and 2 Master’s students. Among them, 3 received the National Scholarship, 2 were awarded Peking University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, and many others were recognized as Beijing Outstanding Graduates, Peking University Outstanding Graduates, recipients of the Peking University CHESS Scholarship, or “Peking University Top Students.” To date, 7 of her former students have received funding from the NSFC Young Scientists Fund.