Wei Zheng
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National Institutes of Health
USA
Biography
Dr. Wei Zheng received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He had worked 12 years in pharmaceutical companies (Berlex, Amgen, and Merck) for drug discovery and development. Since 2005, Dr. Zheng has worked at National Institutes of Health for development of therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases. He has identified several drugs from drug repurposing screens and advanced two of them to clinical trials. Currently, Dr. Zheng is working on the therapeutics development for lysosomal storage diseases, drug resistant cancer and infectious diseases.
Abstract
Abstract : Drug repurposing screen for rapid identification of therapeutics for Zika virus infection