Curriculum Vitae

Edward Zhang
Last Updated: 4/26/2020
EDUCATION

Distinguished student award, — 7th 8th

Torrey Pines High School, — Senior, Class of 2020

Academic Scholar Award, — (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior)

End of season award to varsity athletes with above a 3.5 GPA

EXPERIENCE

Club Swimming — Bay Club Carmel Valley

August 2008 - PRESENT
18 hours/week, 46 weeks/year

Varsity Swimming — Torrey Pines High School

9th, 10th,11th, 12th

Biomedical Research — UC San Diego lab research

June 2015 – June 2019
4 hours/week, 35 weeks/year

Immunotherapy Research — Stanford University

June 18th - July 31st 2019
50 hours/week, 6 weeks

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Siemens Competition for Math, Science and Technology Regional Finalist — 2017
(Top 60 from ~1800 projects)

Using genome-wide methylation profiling and machine learning methods, we identified a

methylation panel for diagnosis and prognosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and
acute myceliogenic leukemia (AML) with a high accuracy, with implications for prediction
of prognosis and treatment selection.
NON-ACADEMIC AWARDS

2017 JV invitational Individual Champion (200 IM)

2017 CIF Division 1 Men’s Team Champion

2018 CIF Division 1 Men’s Team Champion

2018 CIF Division 1 individual finalist

100 back- 53.71

2019 CIF Division 1 individual finalist

100 back- 52.45

2019 CIF Division 1 individual finalist

200 IM-1:57.03

2019 CIF Division 1 Men’s Team

Champion

Professional Community Involvement

President and Founder

May 2018 to present

Race to Cure foundation is A 501c Non-For-Profit Organization dedicated to

cancer eradication through education, active and healthy life style, and early
detection. Over $134,000 raised!

Managed oversight of fundraising logistics Developed

course and secured venue Recruited Olympic and National
elite athletes to Relay Swim Team

Organized a swim relay fund raising event and recruited Olympic and national elite
athletes to the relay Swim Team in July 2018. The event raised $56,000 for early
cancer detection research and education. All funds were donated directly to UCSD
Cancer Moores Center

Planned a swim relay fund raising event and recruited Olympic and national elite
athletes to the relay Swim Team in June 2019. The foundation has already raised
$80,000 for early cancer detection research and education in 2019.
Patents

U.S. Patent (US62/915,623)

Detection of colon cancers by methylation based liquid biopsy.

U.S. Patent (US62/915,624)

Detection of breast cancer by methylation based liquid biopsy.

Publications

Zhu J, Ming C, Fu X, Duan Y, Hoang D, Rutgard J, Zhang R, Wang W, Hou R,

Zhang D, Zhang E, Zhang C, Hao X, Xiong W, Zhang, K. Gene and mutation
independent therapy via CRISPR-Cas9 mediated cellular reprogramming in rod
photoreceptors. Cell Research. 2017;27(6):830-833. doi:10.1038/cr.2017.57.

Hao X, Luo H, Krawczyk M, Wei W, Wang W, Wang J, Flagg K, Hou J, Zhang H,

Yi S, Jafari M, Lin D, Chung C, Caughey BA, Li G, Dhar D, Shi W, Zheng L, Hou
R, Zhu J, Zhao L, Fu X, Zhang E, Zhang C, Zhu JK, Karin M, Xu RH, Zhang K.
DNA methylation markers for diagnosis and prognosis of common cancers (2017).
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 11:7414-7419.

Xu RH, Wei W, Krawczyk M, Wang W, Luo H, Flagg K, Yi S, Shi W, Quan Q, Li K,

Zheng L, Zhang H, Caughey BA, Zhao Q, Hou J, Zhang R, Xu Y, Cai H, Li G, Hou
R, Zhong Z, Lin D, Fu X, Zhu J, Duan Y, Yu M, Ying B, Zhang W, Wang J, Zhang E,
Zhang C, Li O, Guo R, Carter H, Zhu JK, Hao X, Zhang K. (2017). Circulating
tumour DNA methylation markers for diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular
carcinoma. Nature Materials 16:1155-1161.

Kermany D, Goldbaum M, Cai W, Valentim CCS, Liang H, Baxter SL, McKeown A,

Yang G, Wu X, Yan F, Dong J, Prasadha MK, Pei J, Ting M, Zhu J, Li C, Hewett S,
Dong J, Ziyar I, Shi A, Zhang R, Zheng L, Hou R, Shi W, Fu X, Duan Y, Huu VA,
Wen C, Zhang E, Zhang CL, Li O, Wang X, Singer MA, Sun X, Xu J, Tafreshi A,
Lewis MA, Xia H, Zhang K. (2018). Identifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable
Diseases by Image- Based Deep Learning. Cell. 172, 1122–1131 (cover story).

Liang H, Tsui B, Ni H, Valentim C, Baxter S, Liu G, Cai W, Karmany D, Sun X, Chen

J, He L, Zhu J, Tian P, Shao H, Zheng L, Rui H, Hewett S, Li G, Liang P, Zang X,
Zhang Z, Pan L, Cai H, Ling R, Li S, Cui Y, Tang S, Ye H, Huang X, He W, Liang W,
Zhang Q, Jiang J, Yu W, Gao J, Ou W, Deng Y, Hou Q, Wang B, Yao C, Liang Y,
Zhang S, Duan Y, Zhang R, Gibson S, Zhang C, Li O, Zhang E, Karin G, Nguyen N,
Wu X, Wen C, Xu J, Xu W, Wang B, Wang W, Li J, Pizzato B, Bao C, Xiang D, He
W, He S, Zhou Y, Haw W, Goldbaum M, Tremoulet A, Hsu C-N, Carter H, Zhu L,
Zhang K, Xia H. (2019) Evaluation and accurate diagnoses of pediatric diseases
using artificial intelligence. Nature Medicine, 25, 433-438.

Zhang Edward, Zhang Meixia, Li Gen, Zhang Charlotte, Li Zhihuan, Zang Guangxi,
Su Zhiguang, Xiang Daoman, Zhao Ling, Zhu Jie. (2019) Mutation spectrum in
GNAQ and GNA11 in Chinese uveal Melanoma. Precision Clinical Medicine, 2(4),
2019, 213-220.