Dr. Tao Zhang, PhD, Associate Prof.

Dr. Tao Zhang received his PhD in basic veterinary medicine from college of veterinary medicine at China Agricultural University and is now the associate professor and master advisor of Beijing University of Agriculture. He also is the member of Chinese Society for Anatomical Sciences, member of Beijing Society for Anatomical Sciences and member of Asian Society of Traditional Veterinary Medicine.

He majors in the animal clinical application and mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs), and is currently engaged in effects of herbal polysaccharides on the microvascular endothelial glycocalyx and the specificity along meridians of microvasomotion in skin at acupoints.

Dr Zhang is hosting 1 project from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31001083) and 1 project from Scientific Research Common Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No. KM201110020014), and is the main member of 4 projects including 973 program (No. 2012CB518502). He has published more than 40 papers, including four SCI articles, was awarded one third class prize of Beijing Scientific and Technological Achievements and one second prize of excellent teaching production in China Agricultural University, was authorized two invention patents, had one achievements appraisal by Ministry of Education Science and Technology Development Center, was honored as advanced individuals of projects undertaken during the Eleventh Five-year Plan period of Beijing University of Agriculture and advanced individuals of scientific research of Beijing University of Agriculture during 2011-2012, and was participated in one Beijing Higher Education Quality Materials. He also gives a course of Health-keeping from Characters and is the teaching assistant of Veterinary Clinical Diagnostics.

Representative Achievements:

[1] Studies on the correlation between acupoints and microvessels, the third class prize of Beijing Scientific and Technological Achievements (No. 2007农-3-005-06), 2008.

[2] An immunoenhancer of Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine, the invention patent (No. ZL 200910080016.7), 2011.

[3] Immunoenhancer of Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine, the invention patent (No. ZL 200910080015.2), 2012.

[4] Microvascular endothelial cells play potential immunoregulatory roles in the immune response to foot-and-mouth disease vaccines. Cell Biochem Funct (SCI), 2011.

[5] Differences between the concentration in rabbit body fluid of berberine hydrochloride, chlorogenic acid, baicalin, and their minimal inhibitory concentrations. Agricultural sciences in china (SCI), 2009.

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E-mail: zhangtao@bua.edu.cn