Dr. Feng ZHU

Professor, Doctoral advisor, H-index & My Citations (Google Scholar)

Selected candidate of the Chinese "Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts"
Member of Computational Chemistry Professional Committee of CCS and Task Force on Bioinformatics Professional Committee of CCF; Vice President of Chongqing Bioinformatics Society

zhufeng.ns@gmail.com (primary), zhufeng@zju.edu.cn; +86-(0)23-65678468

Extensive knowledge and experience in computer aided drug design, drug target discovery and nature-derived drug research, which need specialties among Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Web & Database development, server construction and System administration.

Project on going

2017.07 - (PI): Zhejiang University "100-Plan Professor" Grant (ZJU2017070)

2016.08 - (PI): National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0902200)

2015.12 - (PI): Chongqing Special Funds for (Chemical) Drug Discovery (cstc2015zdcy-ztzx120003)

2014.03 - (PI): The Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts (RPGYE-5-2014-CQU-ZF)

Project finished

2014.06 - (PI): Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (CDJZR14 46 88 01, evaluated as "Excellent")

2013.01 - (PI): Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (CQDXWL-2012-Z003, evaluated as "Excellent")

2013.01 - (PI): National Natural Science Foundation of China - The Youth Program (81202459)

2012.09 - (PI): Chongqing Natural Science Foundation (cstc2012jjA10116)

2012.08 - (PP): Tianjin Key Technology Support Program (tjkjzc2013zd01)

2012.07 - (PI): Youth 100 Talents Program of Chongqing University (0903005203176, evaluated as "Excellent")

PI: Principal Investigator; PP: Project Participant.

1. Y. H. Li, C. Y. Yu, X. X. Li, P. Zhang, J. Tang, Q. X. Yang, T. T. Fu, X. Y. Zhang, X. J. Cui, G. Tu, Y. Zhang, S. Li, F. Y. Yang, Q. Sun, C. Qin, X. Zeng, Z. Chen, Y. Z. Chen*, F. Zhu*. Therapeutic target database update 2018: enriched resource for facilitating bench-to-clinic research of targeted therapeutics. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 46(D1): 1121-1127 (2018).
2. F. Zhu*, X. X. Li, S. Y. Yang, Y. Z. Chen*. Clinical success of drug targets prospectively predicted by in-silico study. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (Impact Factor: 12.797). 39(3): 229-231 (2018).
3. B. Li, J. Tang, Q. X. Yang, S. Li, X. J. Cui, Y. H. Li, Y. Z. Chen, W. W. Xue, X. F. Li, F. Zhu*. NOREVA: normalization and evaluation of MS-based metabolomics data. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 45(W1): 162-170 (2017).
4. H. Yang, C. Qin, Y. H. Li, L. Tao, J. Zhou, C. Y. Yu, F. Xu, Z. Chen, F. Zhu*, Y. Z. Chen*. Therapeutic target database update 2016: enriched resource for bench to clinical drug target and targeted pathway information. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 44(D1): 1069-1074 (2016).

ESI Highly Cited Paper:

• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 0.87% in 2017.
• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 0.71% in 2018.

5. L. Tao, F. Zhu, C. Qin, C. Zhang, F. Xu, C. Y. Tan, Y. Y. Jiang*, Y. Z. Chen*. Nature's contribution to today's pharmacopeia. Nature Biotechnology (Impact Factor: 41.667). 32(10): 979-980 (2014).
6. F. Zhu, Z. Shi, C. Qin, L. Tao, F. Xu, L. Zhang, X. H. Liu, J. X. Zhang, B. C. Han, P. Zhang, Y. Z. Chen*. Therapeutic target database update 2012: a resource for facilitating target-oriented drug discovery. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 40(D1): 1128-1136 (2012).

ESI Highly Cited Paper:

• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 0.31% in 2017.
• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 0.62% in 2018.

Highlights by Experts in Subject Area:

• "FACULTYof1000" as "the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine" and "a most useful resource for scientists and companies working on drug discovery and validation, drug lead discovery and optimization, and the development of multi-target drugs and drug combinations".
• Prof. Chris Southan in his blog as "Therapeutic Target Database in PubChem".

7. F. Zhu, C. Qin, L. Tao, X. Liu, Z. Shi, X. H. Ma, J. Jia, Y. Tan, C. Cui, J. S. Lin, C. Y. Tan, Y. Y. Jiang*, Y. Z. Chen*. Clustered patterns of species origins of nature-derived drugs and clues for future bioprospecting. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (Impact Factor: 9.661). 108(31): 12943-12948 (2011).

ESI Highly Cited Paper:

• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 1.91% in 2017.
• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 1.16% in 2018.

Highlights by Experts in Subject Area:

• "It Takes 30" of Department of System Biology @ Harvard Medical School as "Drugs run in families".
• International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups as "Highlighted literature citations for Aug 2011".

Media Coverage & News Report:

• NEWS MEDICAL. Sep 8th, 2011.
• Medical News Today (MNT). Sep 7th, 2011.
• mediLexicon.com. Sep 7th, 2011.
• BrightSurf.com. Sep 7th, 2011.
• SCIENCE CODEX. Sep 6th, 2011.
• Sciencenewsline biology. Sep 6th, 2011.
• MedicalXpress. Sep 6th, 2011.
• FirstScience News. Sep 6th, 2011.
• Labspaces.net. Sep 6th, 2011.
• EurekAlert. Sep 6th, 2011.
• eBioNews. Sep 1st, 2011.
• ScienceDaily. Aug 31st, 2011.
• HealthCanal.com. Aug 31st, 2011.
• News Ecology. Aug 31st, 2011.

8. H. B. Rao^#, F. Zhu^#, G. B. Yang, Z. R. Li*, Y. Z. Chen. Update of PROFEAT: a web server for computing structural and physicochemical features of proteins and peptides from amino acid sequences. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 39(W1): 385-390 (2011).
9. F. Zhu, B. C. Han, P. Kumar, X. H. Liu, X. H. Ma, X. N. Wei, L. Huang, Y. F. Guo, L. Y. Han, C. J. Zheng, Y. Z. Chen*. Update of TTD: therapeutic target database. Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor: 10.162). 38(D1): 787-791 (2010).

ESI Highly Cited Paper:

• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 2.95% in 2017.

10. J. Jia, F. Zhu, X. H. Ma, Z. W. Cao, Y. X. Li, Y. Z. Chen*. Mechanisms of drug combinations from interaction and network perspectives. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (Impact Factor: 57.000). 8(2): 111-128 (2009).

ESI Highly Cited Paper:

• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 1.39% in 2017.
• The Percentile in Subject Area shown in InCites™ was 1.13% in 2018.

Chairman of the Symposium IV Session -7 (metabonomics) for Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences Conference 2017. Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China (2017).

Member of the Academic Committee for The 14th National Symposium of Computer & Computational Chemistry. Nanjing University, Nanjing, P. R. China (2017).

Member of the Academic Committee for The Second CCF Bioinformatics Conference (CBC-2017). Central South University, Changsha, P. R. China (2017).

Chairman of the sub-conference 103 (multi-target and protein-protein interaction) for BIT’s 6th Annual International Congress of Medichem-2016 (ICM-2016) . China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, P. R. China. (2016).

Vice-chairman of the 6th theme (study on drug transporter and PK/PD) for BIT’s 6th Annual International Congress of Medichem-2016 (ICM-2016) . China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, P. R. China. (2016).

Chair of the Organizing Committee and the Member of the Academic Committee for The 2nd Symposium on Bioinformatics and Drug Design. Chongqing University, Chongqing, P. R. China. (2016).

Member of the Academic Committee for The 13th National Symposium of Computer & Computational Chemistry. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China. (2015).

Member of the Organizing Committee for International Symposium on Natural Product Synthesis and Innovative Process Methods for Drug Manufacture. Chongqing University, Chongqing, P. R. China. (2012).