Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Chemistry


Faculty URL
https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/zhang

Research Group
https://www.thezlab.org/

Email
ziyang@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
synthetic chemistry, peptides, proteins, drug discovery, cancer, autoimmune diseases

Research Description
Ziyang Zhang is an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the Department of Chemistry.? His lab creates chemical tools to?tweak our immune system and enable new therapeutic mechanisms for cancer and?autoimmune diseases. ?The Zhang lab integrates organic chemistry,?chemical proteomics and functional genomics to discover new mutant-specific?covalent ligands and chemical modulators of the?adaptive immune response. ?