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Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Medical Director of Medical Mycology Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on developing rapid and nonculture-based tools for fungal diagnostics. These include identifying fungal pathogens from FFPE tissue blocks, fungal antigen assays, host-driven response assays, multiplex and next-generation sequencing to rapidly identify fungal pathogens directly from clinical samples. He is also interested in studying the role of fungal pathogens in cystic fibrosis patients and antifungal drug resistance. Dr. Zhang is an Executive Editor of Medical Mycology and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and the Clinical Microbiology Reviews. He is also a Section Editor (Mycology) for the Manual of Clinical Microbiology (13th Edition). He serves as an advisor to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Antifungal Susceptibility Testing subcommittee and a member of the College of American Pathologist (CAP) Microbiology Committee.