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Zhang Suchun

Professor, Signature Research Programme in Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Su-Chun Zhang is the NUS Provost Chair Professor since 2021 and was the Director of the Signature Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders at Duke-NUS Medical School from 2017-2024. He is also the Director of GK Goh Centre for Neuroscience, Duke-NUS Medical School and Steenbock Professor in Behavioral and Neural Sciences at the Department of Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Dr. Zhang received his MD (1984) and MS (1989) in China, his PhD (1996) in Canada. Following his postdoctoral training, he began his assistant professor in 2001 and was promoted to full professor in 2008 at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Pioneering in human stem cell biology, Dr. Zhang has developed technology to guide human stem cells to specialized nerve cell types that are lost in neurological and psychiatric conditions with 25 patents. He is also developing regenerative therapy for neurological conditions like Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, and stroke. 

Dr. Zhang is a founder of the WiCell Institute, the first non-for-profit institute to develop and distribute human stem cells worldwide. He has built a Stem Cell & Genome Editing Facility at Duke-NUS, serving investigators across Singapore. He is co-founder of BrainXell, Inc and BrainXell Therapeutics, Inc.


Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Master of Medicine

Shanghai Medical University, China

Bachelor of Medicine

Wenzhou Medical College, China

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