Professor Zhang Han

Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, McGovern Medical School, Texas Medical Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), US

Between 1977 and 1980, Zhang studied at Yangzhou Medical College (now part of Yangzhou University) where he started his career as an instructor of Anatomy upon graduation until 1992.

Zhang completed a postdoctoral training in John Byrne and Leonard Cleary Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School (formerly The University of Texas Medical School at Houston) , and started a Research Fellow job at McGovern Medical School between 1993 and 2001. He became a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at McGovern Medical School in 2016. The focus of Professor Zhang’s laboratory is into the neural mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Specifically, his research attempts to link morphological changes with the enhancement of synaptic efficacy, such as long-term facilitation, a well-established synaptic model for memory. The marine mollusc Aplysia californica is used as a model system to investigate the morphological correlates of the sensory and motor neurons involved in the tail-withdrawal reflex. Several of his experiments have shown that morphological changes are correlated with synaptic strength. Although research is his main focus, Professor Zhang contributes to the academic goals of the department’s anatomical program as well.

Further information：https://med.uth.edu/nba/faculty/han-zhang-md/