Head of Data Science, Site Head of Pharma Research and Early Development Informatics
Roche Innovation Center Shanghai
Dr. Qing Zhang is the Director of Informatics at Roche Innovation Center Shanghai, a member of China Management Team, and a member of global Data Science Leadership Team. His department manages research and early development data and workflows, performs data analysis, such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and information science studies, to impact decision making in drug discovery projects. Dr. Zhang has 19 years of molecular modeling and informatics practice and 10 years of drug discovery experience in multinational pharmaceutical companies. He is the co-inventor of 3 clinical candidates, has over 10 publications on international journals, and received multiple awards for technology innovations. Before joining Roche, Dr. Zhang was the Associate Director of Computational Chemistry at Amgen Asia R&D Center and was once the Principal Scientist at GSK R&D China. Dr. Zhang obtained a B.S. in physics (minor in computer science) from Fudan University in China and a Ph.D. in computational biomolecular chemistry from New York University in USA, which was followed by a postdoctoral training on computational molecular biology at The Scripps Research Institute in USA.