Meet the 2024 Winner: Zhaozhong Zhu ScD
Dr. Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member at Emergency Medicine Network, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a bachelor of science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a doctoral of science degree in Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship with Drs. David Christiani and Liming Liang at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, and with Drs. Carlos Camargo and Kohei Hasegawa at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Zhu has been part of the ATS since 2015 and active member of both the Section on Genetics and Genomics and Allergy, Immunology & Inflammation Assembly. He is also a member of the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Genetics Task Force.
Dr. Zhu’s research interests mainly include identifying the biological risk factors for respiratory diseases, such as asthma, bronchiolitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using multi-omics data, such as genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome. He has been awarded multiple prestigious grants, such as the NIH K01 Award and the American Lung Association Innovation Award, to investigate the heterogeneity and mechanisms of childhood asthma using multi-omics analysis.
With the knowledge base, skills, and tools developed during the research, Dr. Zhu is enthusiastic to devote his career to understanding the fundamental causes of respiratory diseases and hopes to transform the research findings into primary prevention and clinical intervention. Dr. Zhu feels honored to work with many renowned and dedicated respiratory scientists in the world.
Description:
The award recognizes early career investigators with outstanding contributions to the scientific understanding of genetics, genomics, “omics” technologies, and systems biology applications in the fields of respiratory, critical care, and sleep medicine. The Awardee will feature such scientific contributions in a 5-minute presentation at the Section on Genetics and Genomics (SGG) Annual Meeting during the American Thoracic Scientific (ATS) International Conference. There is no monetary award for this recognition. Nominators are encouraged to emphasize the following achievements about a candidate (if applicable): (1) Scientific and Scholarly Productivity, (2) Educational and Mentoring Contributions, (3) Contributions to the Scientific Field, and (4) Participations in ATS, AII or SGG activities.
Eligibility:
- Nominees must be members of SGG.
- Nominees must be within 10 years of their first faculty appointment (or equivalent). An additional written justification is needed to request a waiver of this criterion and will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- Nominees cannot have previously received another ATS Early Career Award.
- Active participation and contributions to the SGG and the ATS will be viewed favorably.
- There are no nationality restrictions for this award.
