Xiaohui Zhang
Lehigh University, USA
Biography
Xiaohui “Frank” Zhang received his doctorate in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Miami in 2003. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Zhang received his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School with Prof. Timothy A. Springer. Prior to joining the Lehigh faculty, he served as a principal investigator at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His work has been published over 40 research articles in journals such as Science, Nature, and PNAS. Zhang’s research and teaching focus on the structural and biomechanical properties of proteins, protein engineering, biomechanics, physiology, and biophysics.
Abstract
Abstract : Biomechanical characterization of von Willebrand factor – a giant multimeric plasma protein