Assistant Professor
Binghamton Univ School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tao Zhang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, SUNY Binghamton University. He received his bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from Zhejiang University, P.R. China, in 2003; his master's degree in Environmental Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China, in 2005; and his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Michigan in 2010. He then worked in Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) department at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation in New Jersey from 2010 to 2014. After that he joined Husson University School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He joined the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University in 2022.
Dr. Zhang’s primary research focuses on translational research by utilizing in vitro, in vivo and in silico approaches to evaluate drug safety and efficacy and support drug development in the human. His laboratory conducts preclinical drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) studies and utilizes pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling tools to build PK, pharmacokinetic /pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) and physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models to optimize drug dosage regimen and assess drug safety. One current project is to develop approaches to predict drug transfer into human milk during breastfeeding to assess drug safety and minimize risk to infant during lactation. Another project is to assess the e-cigarette smoke exposure to lung and establish dose-response relationship.
He has published over 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals with more than 3,000 citations.