Hang Zhou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Hang Zhou PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and trained in computational biology. The focus of Dr. Zhou’s work is to understand the human genome and how it affects human traits and diseases. Dr. Zhou’s mentorship team includes Marc Potenza MD, and Joel Gelernter MD. Dr. Zhou is currently receiving his first year of 50% salary support. His progress includes:
- Zhou H, et al. Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals. Nature Medicine. PMCID: PMC9901058. This paper has received much media attention.
- Promoted to Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science.
- Pilot grant from Yale CTNA “Genetics of sex differences in alcohol use and alcohol use disorder.” (co-funded with SCORE)
- Pending NIAAA R01 “Genetics of sex differences in alcohol use and alcohol use disorder”; 2 other pending R01s (NCI, NIMH).