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Dr Zheying Zhu

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Zheying Zhu

Zheying Zhu

PhD MSc BSc MRPharmS
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology

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E: zheying.zhu@beds.ac.uk

Research interests

My recent research is focused on applications of proteomic approaches in molecular toxicology. NanoLC-MS/MS and SELDI-TOF-MS are used to examine protein profiles of estrogen effects of environmental estrogenic compounds on human breast cancer.

Potential protein biomarkers are discovered and used to characterise dose response relationships of mixtures of estrogenic compounds. Molecular mechanism of estrogen effects and cell signalling pathway are explored by using label-free quantitative proteomics GeLC-MS/MS.

The latest application of these techniques is the identification and quantification of cytochrome P450 and Phase II metabolic enzymes in human native skin and 3D human skin models.

My previous research interests focussed on pharmaceutical sciences including antimicrobial chemotherapy, drug formulation and delivery systems, and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics modelling.

Recent publications

  • Zheying Zhu and Robert J Edwards Application of proteomics to study mechanism of toxicity and dose response relationships of chemical exposure. In Systems Toxicology: A Handbook, to be published by John Wiley & Sons, 2011 
  • Zheying Zhu, Robert J Edwards, Alan R Boobis Increased expression of histone proteins during estrogen-mediated cell proliferation.
  • Environmental Health Perspectives 117 (6):928-934, 2009 Zheying Zhu, Alan R Boobis, Robert J Edwards
  • Identification of estrogen-responsive proteins in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells using label-free quantitative proteomics. Proteomics 8:1987-2005, 2008
  • Zheying Zhu, Robert J Edwards and Alan R Boobis Proteomic analysis of human breast cell lines using SELDI-TOF-MS shows that mixtures of estrogenic compounds exhibit simple similar action (concentration additivity). Toxicology Letters 181:93-103, 2008
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