Jinwei Zhang

University of Exeter Medical School

United Kingdom

Dr Jinwei Zhang obtained his Ph.D degree in Biotechnology from Newcastle University and Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the MRC-Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (Dundee), UK. He is currently a Principal Investigator in the University of Exeter Medical School, UK. His laboratory studies signalling pathways that associated with human diseases, for examples, neuropsychiatric disorders (WNK-SPAK-KCC2) and hypertension (CUL3/KLHL3-WNK-SPAK-NCC) and concern with elucidating and targeting ion transporters, kinases, protein-protein interactions using genetic mouse models, small molecules and CRISPR/Cas9 knock-in and knock-out technologies to aid discovery and validation of new potential drug targets. He has published more than 40 articles in journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and Cell Metabolism etc. and has achieved more than 1400 citations with h-index=20.

Biomedical, Clinical Science, cellular Chloride Homeostasis, Cell Volume Regulation and Cell Volume Regulation