Name	Wencheng Zhang
Title	Ph.D., Professor, FACC
Areas of Focus	Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Obesity

Professor Wencheng Zhang graduated from Nanjing University with Ph.D. degree. Since October 2014, he has worked in the Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular remodeling and function research of Shandong University Qilu hospital. He was honored as Young Taishan Scholar in 2016 and Fellow of American College of Cardiology (FACC) in 2018. He is mainly engaged in the research of molecular mechanism about cardiovascular diseases. He has hosted three projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China. In recent years, he has published papers in Circulation, Gastroenterology, Nature Communications, Oncogene, J Mol Cell Cardiol, etc.
 
Research Interest

• Atherosclerosis
• Hypertension
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm
•  Obesity

• Study on the mechanism of LKB1IP in the pathological cardiac hypertrophy, 81970198, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020/01-2023/12
• Smooth muscle LKB1 Protects against Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation, 81770473, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018/01-2021/12
• Role of HuR in Nicotine-induced Endothelial Dysfunction and Atherosclerotic Formation/Rupture in vitro and in vivo, 81570393, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2016/01-2019/12