Dr. Zhang co-edited two books and co-authored one book. Dr. Zhang has served on the editorial boards of 14 journals including Clinical Cancer Research, International Journal of Oncology, BMC Genomics, Cancer Biology and Therapy, Cancer Letters and Chinese Journal of Cancer. Dr. Zhang’s research has been supported by grants from NCI/NIH, DOD, and foundations including Goldhirsh Foundation, James S. McDonald Foundation, the National Foundation for Cancer Research. He has been continuously funded by NCI since 1994. He is the Director of the Center in Cancer Systems Informatics funded by the National Foundation of Cancer Research. Dr. Zhang is a co-director of one of seven Genome Data Analysis Centers (GDAC) under the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project funded by NCI. Dt. Zhang serve on the Executive Committee of AACR GENIE. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of AACR Team Science Award in 2021. Dr. Zhang has served on many grant review panels both at NIH, DOD, and other funding agencies. Dr. Zhang was a chartered member of NIH Cancer Genetics Study Section and has reviewed close to 400 NIH grants. Recently, Dr. Zhang chaired two DOD study sections on lung cancer.
Dr. Zhang chaired the international steering committee for the Tumor Tissue Bank at the Tianjin Cancer Institute and Hospital for 9 years. Dr. Zhang served as the President from 2010-2013 of the US Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (USCACA) and is currently the Chairman of the Board of USCACA. He has been serving on the organization committee of the AACR symposium in Shanghai.