Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Lijuan Zhang is a Professor of Translational Medicine at Ocean University of China. She completed her doctorates of biochemistry and molecular genetics at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1995. Before then, she was a Fogarty International Fellow at NIH for three years studying glycan-based cancer biomarkers. She worked as post-doctorate fellow and research associate at both MIT and Harvard Medical School from 1995-2002. She joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 as a tenure-tracked Assistant Professor. Her research had been focused on the biosynthesis, structures, and biological functions of glycans since 1985. Now her work is on translational aspects of glycans as biomarkers and therapeutics. She has over 60 peer reviewed publications. She edited and published a book entitled “Glycosaminoglycans in Development, Health, and Diseases” with the contributions of top scientists worldwide in 2010 by Elsevier.

• 1. An Overview of Fugal Glycan-based TherapeuticsDandan Yang2. Heparin: An Essential Drug for Modern MedicineCui Hao3. Low Molecular Weight Heparins and Their Clinical ApplicationsCui Hao4. The Clinical Use of Fondaparinux: A Synthetic Heparin PentasaccharideYiran Zhang5. Heparinoids as Clinically Used DrugsHuaiqian Dou6. Marine Glycan-Derived Therapeutics in ChinaYanyun Gao7. Efficacy of Heparinoid PSS in Treating Cardiovascular and other Diseases--30 Years Clinical Applications in ChinaMing Shan8. Ganoderma Sinense Polysaccharide--An Adjunctive Drug Used for Cancer Treatment Meng Zhang9. Fucoidan Used for Treating Renal Diseases: A Review of 15 Years Clinical StudiesJing Wang10. Ganoderma Lucidum Polysaccharide Used for Treating Physical Frailty in ChinaPengjiao Zeng11. The Biological Activities of the Antitumor Drug Grifola Frondosa Polysaccharide Yanli He12. Molecular Basis for Poria cocos Mushroom Polysaccharide Used as an Antitumor Drug in ChinaXiulian Li13. Biological Mechanisms of Glycan- and Glycosaminoglycan-based Nutraceuticals Yang Tang14. Mushroom Polysaccharide Lentinan for Treating Different Types of Cancers—A Review of 12 Years of Clinical Studies in ChinaYiran Zhang15. Polyporus Umbellatus Polysaccharide in Treating Hepatitis B in ChinaZhihua Guo16. Coriolus Versicolor Polysaccharopeptide as an Immunotherapeutic in ChinaHuaiqian Dou17. Tremella Polysaccharide: The molecular Mechanisms of its Drug ActionDandan Yang18. The Structures and Biological Functions of Polysaccharides from Traditional Chinese HerbsPengjiao Zeng