Zhi Dong Zhou

National Neuroscience Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Dr. Zhi Dong Zhou graduated as a medical doctor in 1991 and completed five years of postgraduate clinical training in internal medicine. Subsequently, he acquired his Ph.D. and received postdoctoral training in Parkinson’s disease (PD) research at the National University of Singapore in 2003. Later, he joined the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) as a member of the National PD Translational Bench to Bedside team and continues to work on PD.Currently, he is a Principal Investigator and a Clinician Scientist at NNI, as well as a regular-rank Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders (NBD) program at Duke-NUS Medical School. Additionally, he serves as a Principal Investigator for NMRC, SHF, and Duke-NUS grants.With interdisciplinary backgrounds in Medicine, Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Translational Neuroscience, Dr. Zhou possesses extensive scientific training, experience, and expertise in translational neuroscience research. His laboratory focuses on neurodegenerative disorders, with a particular emphasis on identifying and validating new therapeutic targets and biomarkers for PD and other neurodegenerative diseases. His research aims to uncover the molecular pathogenesis of human neurodegenerative diseases and to identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of these disorders.