Yajun Zhang, M.D.

Research Interests

Ya-Jun Zhang received her M.D. in China from Shanxi Medical University. She has over 15 years of experience in rodent transgenic research, first starting in 1997 with Dr. Eric Nestler’s molecular psychiatry laboratory at Yale University. She joined Dr. Barry Hoffer’s cellular Neurophysiology Section of NIDA in 2000 then moved to OTTC in 2012 as part of the collaborative effort with NIAAA.

Current responsibilities include:

• Coordinate the breeding and usage of the OTTC transgenic rat colony
• Manage the database of all of OTTC’s transgenic rats
• Phenotype and genotype OTTC-generated transgenic rats.

Publications