Dr. Zhengping Zhuang is a clinical pathologist, researcher, inventor and educator. He is the head of Molecular Pathogenesis Unit at Surgical Neurology Branch (SNB), NINDS, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Dr. Zhuang obtained his medical degree from Shanghai Second Medical University, China in 1983 and Ph.D in Molecular Biology & Pharmacology at Wayne State University, USA in 1990. He then received postgraduate and residency training at Harvard University Medical School, University of Michigan and National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institute of Health. He became staff pathologist in NCI in 1996 before taking the Directorship of Molecular Pathogenesis Unit at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) since 1999.

Dr. Zhuang has received more than 20 awards for his outstanding research including numerous ones from the NIH, the Federal Laboratory Consortium award in 2010 for Excellence in Technology Transfer and Cy Katzer Humanitarian award this year for identification of a new syndrome of paraganglioma, somatostatinoma and polycythemia.

Dr. Zhuang has published more than 270 papers in various journals, including high impact ones such as Nature Genetics, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Lancet and PNAS.