Biography

Peng Zhang received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, and trained as a postdoctoral research associate in the Children's National Medical Center and University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has been an Assitant Professor with the Division of Immunotherapy and the Director of Bioinformatics Core at the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine until 2021. He joined the National Center for Children's Health as a Professor at the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute of Beijing Children's Hospital/Capital Medical University in 2021. He is a computational biologist with expertise in biomedical informatics and immunogenomics. His laboratory focuses on integrative mining and framework development from sequencing data generated on high throughput techniques in tumor immune characterization, drug response and resistance.