Hongxing Zhang(张红星)

Hongxing Zhang received a B.S. degree in Anesthesiology from Weifang Medical College, Weifang, China, in 2007, an M.S. degree in Anesthesiology from Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Anesthesiology from China Medical University, Shenyang, China. He completed his postdoctoral training in Dr. Ming-Hu Han’s laboratory at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to study the neural circuit mechanism of social resilience. Since 2017, he has been working as a neuroscience professor in the School of Anesthesiology at Xuzhou Medical University. His research aims to apply pathway- and cell-type-specific electrophysiological, optogenetic, molecular, and behavioral approaches to elucidate the molecular, cellular, synaptic, and neural circuit mechanisms in brain areas relevant to depression and chronic pain. Understanding such basic mechanisms will likely provide novel therapeutic strategies/targets against many symptoms of depression and chronic pain.