Prof. Baohong Zhang
Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA
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Dr. Baohong Zhang is currently working as a distinguished professor at East Carolina University (ECU, US). Dr. Zhang graduated from China Agricultural University. After received his bachelor degree, he worked on cotton biotechnology at Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Then he received his PhD from Texas Tech University in 2006. Dr. Zhang has authored more than 200 publications with more than 12,000 citations, many of them are listed as highly cited papers by the Web of Sciences, his h-index is 49. Dr. Zhang frequently reviewed manuscripts for many international journals, including Nature and Nature Biotechnology. He also served as an Associate Editor or Guest Editor for 7 journals, including Scientific Reports and Plant Biotechnology Journal. He has reviewed proposals for more than 40 funding agents, including NSF, US DoE, US USDA, and NSFC. Dr. Zhang is elected to the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018. He won the Researcher of the Year 2018 award by the ICAC. In 2018, Dr. Zhang won the THCAS Distinguished Professorship and the Highly Cited Scholar awards. Recently, he also won the Lifetime Research Achievement Award, the top honor for ECU faculty.