Zhaozhong Zhu, ScD, is an Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He completed his bachelor of science degree in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, cum laude, and his doctoral of science degree in Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Zhu’s research interests mainly include identifying the biological risk factors for respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) using multi-omics data, such as genome-wide association study (GWAS), epigenomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics and microbiome. He hopes to transform research findings into community prevention and clinical intervention.