Min Zhang, born in 1970, Professor, PhD advisor. Director of the Bioinformatics Research Center at Capital Medical University, and adjunct professor at Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders.

Dr. Zhang obtained her MD from Hebei Medical University, and PhD in Neurophysiology from Beijing Medical University in 1998. Then she got her PhD in Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University in 2005, and took a faculty position at Purdue University in 2005.

Dr. Zhang serves as a statistical specialist for The Plant Cell, and a review editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology.

Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on biomedical big data. More specifically, it includes theoretical statistics, statistical methodology (variable selection for high dimensional data, Bayesian methods), bioinformatics and quantitative genetics (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and next generation sequencing data), genomewide association studies for biomarkers, health care providers profiling. Dr. Zhang is the PI or co-investigator for about twenty projects on big data, and has published thirty-seven peer-reviewed papers.
   
1.Guan L, Wang Q, Wang L, Wu B, Chen Y, Liu F, Ye F, Zhang T, Li K, Yan B, Lu C, Su L, Jin G, Wang H, Tian H, Wang L, Chen Z, Wang Y, Chen J, Yuan Y, Cong W, Zheng J, Wang J, Xu X, Liu H, Xiao W, Han C, Zhang Y, Jia F, Qiao X, Genetic REsearch on schizophreniAneTwork-China and Netherland (GREAT-CN),Zhang D, and Zhang M*, and Ma H* (co-corresponding authors, 2015). Common variants on 17q25 and gene-gene interactions conferring risk of schizophrenia in Han Chinese population and regulating gene expressions in human brain.Molecular Psychiatry. 2016 Jan 5. doi: 10.1038/mp.2015.204.
2. Shi C, Zheng Z, Wang Q, Wang C, Zhang D, Zhang M*, Chan P*, Wang XM*. Exploring the effects of genetic variants on clinical profiles of Parkinson’s disease assessed by the Unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale and the Hoehn-Yahr score. PLos One. 2016 Jun 14;11(6):e0155758.
3.Chen C, Deng L, Wei S, Gowda N, Gu H, Chiorean EG, Zaid MA, Harrison ML, Pekny JF, Loehrer PJ, Zhang D, Zhang M*, and Raftery D*. (co-corresponding authors, 2015) Exploring metabolic profile differences between colorectal polyp patients and controls using seemingly unrelated regression. Journal of Proteome Research. 14(6): 2492-2499.
4. Li X, Zhu C, Lin Z, Wu Y, Zhang D, Ma J, Song W, Bai G, Muehlbauer G, Scanlon M, Zhang M*, and Yu J*. (2011). Chromosome size in diploid eukaryotic species centers on the average length with a conserved boundary. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28(6): 1901-1911.
5. Zhang D, Huang X, Regnier F, and Zhang M*. (2008). Two-dimensional correlation optimized warping algorithm for aligning GCXGC-MS data. Analytical Chemistry, 80(8): 2664-2671.