Professional Activities

Professional Experiences

11/2012- Research Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
12/2012- Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University
10/2007-6/2012 Research Scientist (Research Associate Professor), Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University
7/2002-9/2007 Research Scientist (Research Associate Professor), Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
2008- Adjunct Professor of Nanchang University School of Medicine, China
2005- Adjunct Professor of West China Clinical Medical School of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
4/2000-6/2002 Associate Research Scientist (Research Assistant Professor), Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
1/1998-4/2000 Visiting scholar/Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Molecular Biophysics and   Biochemistry, Yale University

7/1997-12/1999

Assistant professor and lecturer of Oncology, Immunology, and Pathophysiology, Cancer Research Institute, Hunan Medical University, Changsha, China

Teaching Experience

In a brief summary, I have been mentoring one visiting scholar, one Master degree graduate student, one MD/PhD graduate student and two senior undergraduate students at OSU since I joined OSU faculty in November 2012. Prior to my current position, I had trained five postdoctoral associates, two research technicians, four visiting professor/associate professor/research scientists, ten undergraduates and seven high school students in my laboratory at Yale University during 2002-2012.

September 2014: Mentoring an OSU undergraduate senior student (Shengjia Gao) for the course of research for credit (Biochem 4998).
May 2014-: Mentoring an OSU graduate student (Meghan Flannery) on Master degree thesis research
Feb 2014-: Mentoring a Visiting Scholar (Dr. Qikun Zhang) from China on targeted nanoparticles for delivery of tumor-targeting therapeutic and diagnostic agents
Jan 2014-: Continuing Co-Mentoring one MD/PhD graduate student (Amanda Harper) with Dr. William Carson III in the Department of Surgery of OSUMC
May 2013-: Co-Mentoring one MD/PhD graduate student (Amanda Harper) with Dr. William Carson III in the Department of Surgery of OSUMC.
July 2013-: Mentoring two senior OSU undergraduate students (Zi Li and Shengjia Gao) as lab assistants working in my laboratory.
 Summer 2013: Mentoring a high school senior student as a volunteer on cancer research.
Summer 2011: Supervisor for a high school student sponsored by the Discovery to Cure Program in the Department of Ob/Gyn of Yale University and a medical student from National Yang-Ming Medical School in Taiwan, China.
Spring 2011: Supervisor for a Yale undergraduate student for Research for Credit Course of Yale Dept. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Summer 2009: Mentor for a high school student in the Discovery to Cure Internship Program in the Department of Ob/Gyn of Yale University.
Summer 2008: Mentor for a high school student in the Discovery to Cure Internship Program in the Department of Ob/Gyn of Yale University.
Summer 2008: Mentor for two high school students in the 22nd year of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Summer Science Internship Program under the sponsorship of the Yale Cancer Center.
Summer 2007: Mentor for a high school senior student in the 21st year of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Summer Science Internship Program under the sponsorship of the Yale Cancer Center.
Spring 2007: Advisor on Yale senior undergraduate student on the role of tissue factor on tumor angiogenesis.
Summer 2006: Mentor for one undergraduate student in the 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program under the sponsorship of the Yale Graduate School.
Spring 2006: Advisor on two Yale College undergraduates’ studies on Icon-mediated therapies and tumor angiogenesis.
Fall, 2005: Advisor on three Yale College undergraduates’ studies on Icon-targeted photodynamic therapy for cancer, tumor angiogenesis, and Icon protein purification and detection.
Spring, 2005: Advisor on a Yale College undergraduate’s study on Icon-targeted photodynamic therapy for cancer.
Spring, 1996: Lecturer of nursing students in Pathology course at the First Nursing School of Hunan, Changsha, China
Spring, 1996: Lecturer of Master’s degree students in Tumor Immunology in Advanced Pathophysiology course at Hunan Medical University, Changsha, China
Fall, 1993: Graduate student for Master’s degree as Teaching Assistant to teach the 2nd year medical students on examining experimental renal dysfunction in a rabbit model in the Department of Pathophysiology at Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang, China

 

ZHIWEI HU, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Surgical Oncology
The Ohio State University
USA