Ying E. Zhang

Ying E. Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist specialized in TGF-beta signaling and functions of ubiquitin E3 ligase Smurfs to better understand cancer cells and metastasis. She is a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute.

Education Zhang received her B.S. degree in chemistry and M.S. degree in biochemistry from Peking University. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995. She completed her postdoctoral training with in University of California, San Francisco.

Career and research Zhang joined the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2000 as a tenure-track investigator and became a senior investigator in 2007. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.