Zhirong Zhang

Professor, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University

Permanent positions

- 2000.9 – present, Professor, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University

- 1997.9 – 2000.9, Professor, School of Pharmacy, West China University of Medical Sciences

- 1993.12 – 1997.9, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, West China University of Medical Sciences

- 1986.12 – 1993.12, Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, West China University of Medical Sciences

- 1982.1 – 1986.12, Teaching Assistant, School of Pharmacy, West China University of Medical Sciences

Visiting positions

- 2013.1-2016.8, Visiting Professor, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Academic Positions

- Member of the Pharmacy Discipline Evaluation Group and Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council of China (5th and 6th sessions)

- Expert Consultant of the Expert Advisory Group for the National 973 Program in Health Science (2013-2020)

- Member of the First National Pharmacy Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee

- Member of the National Pharmacopoeia Committee (7th-11th sessions) and Director of the Committee on Pharmaceutical Excipients and Packaging Materials (9th-10th sessions)

- Member of the First National Generic Drug Quality and Efficacy Consistency Evaluation Expert Committee (2016-present)

- Member of the First Industrial Pharmacy Professional Committee of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association (2020-2024)

- Chairman of the Third Chinese Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (2012-2013)

- Expert of the First National Licensed Pharmacist Qualification Certification

- Expert of the National Drug Pricing Review

- Member (9th, 10th, 13th, 14th sessions) and Chairman (13th, 14th sessions) of the Expert Review Group of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee

- Member of the Guiding Committee for the Construction of National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Bases

- Chairman of the Expert Committee for the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" Textbooks (Pharmacy) in General Higher Medical and Pharmaceutical Colleges (2015-present) (Science Press)

- Deputy Director of the Editorial Committee for Pharmacy Textbooks in National Higher Medical and Pharmaceutical Colleges (2001-present) (China Medical Science and Technology Press)

- Deputy Director of the Fourth and Fifth Evaluation Committees for Pharmacy Textbooks in National Higher Education Institutions (2010-present) (People's Health Publishing House)

- Director of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association (20th-24th sessions) and Executive Director (21st-22nd sessions)

- Member (20th-23rd sessions) and Deputy Director (21st-22nd sessions) of the Pharmacy Professional Committee of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association

- Deputy Director of the Chinese Society for Granule Medicine and Deputy Director of the Biogranule Professional Committee (2013-present)

- Member of the First Drug Packaging Materials and Excipients Supervision and Management Research Professional Committee of the Chinese Drug Supervision and Management Research Association (2013-present)

- Vice Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Education Research Committee of the National Higher Medical Education Society

- Executive Director of the China Medical Education Association

- Member of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government Decision Advisory Committee (Science and Technology Advisory Group) (1998-present)

- Specially Invited People's Juror of the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court

- President of the Sixth and Seventh Sessions of the Sichuan Pharmaceutical Association (2003-2016), Honorary President of the Eighth Session

- Member of the Degree Committee of Sichuan University

- Member of the Academic Committee and Academic Ethics Construction Committee of Sichuan University

- Member of the Teaching Advisory Committee of Sichuan University

- Member of the Personnel Committee of Sichuan University

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

- 1999.1-2017.6, Dean, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University and West China University of Medical Sciences

- 1993.12-1999.1, Vice dean, School of Pharmacy, West China University of Medical Sciences

- 2000.1-2002.9, Manager of Pharmaceutical Factory of West China University of Medical Sciences and Sichuan University

- 1999.4-2005.10, Head and chairman of Sichuan Huaxing Chinese Traditional Medicine Co., a Chinese-Japanese joint venture

- 1999.1-2005.10, Head of Institute of Materia Medica, West China University of Medical Sciences and Sichuan University

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

- 1995, Second Class Prize of Wujieping-Paul Jassen Medicine Research Award

- 1998, Third Class Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award, awarded by the Ministry of Education, China(ranked first)

- 1998, Top 10 Outstanding Youth in Chengdu and Outstanding Young Experts with Outstanding Contributions in Sichuan Province

- 1999, Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

- 1999, First Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first)

- 1999, Second Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked second)

- 2000, Second Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked third)

- 2002, Outstanding Young Experts with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Health in China

- 2006, Third Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first)

- 2011, First Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first)

- 2013, First Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first)

- 2015, First Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked second)

- 2018, First Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked third)

- 2020, Second Class Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked second)

- 2020, Second Class Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked first)

EDUCATION

1978.3-1982.1 West China University of Medical Sciences, BS in Pharmacy

1990.9-1993.7 West China University of Medical Sciences, PhD in Pharmaceutics