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Dr. Zhao received MS and PhD degrees from Oregon State University (mentors: Dr. Charles E. King and Dr. Dallice Mills). His postdoctoral training was at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (mentor: Dr. Howard B. Lieberman) where he became an Associate Research Scientist in the rank of Research Assistant Professor from 1993-1994. Dr. Zhao served as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Chicago Children's Medical Research Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 1994-2003. During his tenure at Northwestern, he was named as the Bernard L. Mirkin PhD MD Research Scholar, an endowed Chair established by the Medical Research Institute Council with one million dollar endowment to support his HIV-related research. Dr. Zhao joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. He is currently a tenured full Professor. Besides his primary appointment in the Department of Pathology, Dr. Zhao holds additional faculty appointments in the Department of Microbiology-Immunology, the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center and the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Zhao is an elected member of the faculty council at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM); President of the faculty senate (2011-2013) at the University of Maryland (UMB); and a member of the Council of the University Faculties (CUSF) at the University System of Maryland (USM). Dr. Zhao holds
Guest Professorship at various non-US universities including
the Institute of Virology of China CDC;
the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of
the Chinese Military Academy of Medical Sciences, Institute of
Virology, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences; Specializing
in HIV/AIDS and Molecular Diagnostics, He is currently president of
the US-China AIDS
Alliance, scientific advisor for the China AIDS Foundation and have served
as a member of virology committee for
the
National Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Groups (PACTG). Dr.
Zhao serves or have served a number of scientific advisory and review bodies.
These include the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory
Committee at the
Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, Advisor of the Illinois
American Cancer Society, Advisor for the
Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute. Dr. Zhao has served as a reviewer
or chair various international science grant review bodies including the US
National Institute of Health (NIH),
the Department of
Defense (DOD), the American
Association for Advanced Sciences (AAAS),
Illinois
American Cancer Society, the
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida),
the French National Research Agency,
the
Wellcome Trust Dr. Zhao has served on a number of scientific
editorial boards including
Cell Research,
Cell & Bioscience,
Chinese Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Virology, Clinical and Applied Immunology
Review,
International Journal of High Throughput Screening,
Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Pathology,
Frontiers in
Virology, Frontiers
in BioSciences, PLos One and
Retroviology. He has published more than
more than 100 scientific articles in various American and international journals
with more than 80 conference abstracts and edited three scientific books and
three special issues of scientific journals. Dr. Zhao has been invited to give
lectures on his basic science research and molecular diagnostics world-wide
including
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