Dr. Haibo Zhang is a Staff Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St. Michael’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Anesthesia, Medicine and Physiology at the University of Toronto. His translational research program focuses on the mechanisms and therapy of acute lung injury and sepsis. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and is the recipient of enormous research grants and a number of research awards, including Premier’s Research Excellence Award (Ontario), a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Science. He serves on a number of academic and appointment committees at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), University of Toronto and at St. Michael’s Hospital. He has trained over 90 MSc and PhD students, and post-doctoral fellows.
He has served on the Standing Committee of Critical Care Assembly, the American Thoracic Society in 2005-2006, Associate Editor, Intensive Care Medicine in 2007-2013, and Editorial Boards on a number of medical journals. He was a member of grant and award committees of CIHR since 2012 and is a member of College of Reviewer since 2016, a guest grant reviewer for European nations (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Israel, UK and Italy) since 2010. He is Theme Lead of Biomaterial, Tissue Injury and Repair at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (iBEST), a partnership between Ryerson University and St. Michael’s Hospital since 2017.
