Dr. Zhou earned his BS and PhD degrees from Wuhan University in China, and completed his postdoctoral training in Indiana University School of Medicine and Tulane University School of Medicine in the USA. He took the position of Principle Investigator in Shanghai Cancer Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences of Fudan University in 2016. He received the 2016 USCACA–AFCR scholar award and is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Innovative Research Team of the High-level Local University in Shanghai. His research interests focus on the basic and translational study on cancer. He serves as a board member of J Mol Cell Biol, Cancer Medicine, Genes, and Frontiers journals. Dr. Zhou has more than 50 publications in scientific journals, such as PNAS, Cell Death Differ, Redox Biology, Mol Cancer, Elife, Clin Transl Med, Oncogene, JBC etc.

Research Focus:

1. To elucidate the roles of wild-type and mutant p53s in cancer;

2. To determine the roles of noncoding RNAs in the p53 network;

3. To explore the roles of nucleolar stress in cancer development and therapy;

4. To understand cancer metabolism in response to cellular stress signals.