Full professor
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Medicine

Prof. Ze Zhang received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering from Chengdu University of Science & Technology in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and a PhD degree in Experimental Medicine from Université Laval in 1993. After postdoctoral training in Japan in 1995, he became a professor in the Department of Surgery at UL and a researcher in the Division of Regenerative Medicine at the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec–Université Laval. Prof. Zhang was trained in synthetic polymers/plastics (B.Eng), biomaterials (M.Eng), and vascular implants (Ph. D). His research projects have been supported by public funding agencies and private companies, including Fonds de recherche du Québec–Santé (FRQS), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and St. Jude Biomedical.

His recent research has been about electrically conductive materials and their applications in biomedical engineering, such as electrically stimulated cell culture, and in energy storage, such as supercapacitors. Another line of his research is about cardiovascular implants, mainly focusing on the analysis of clinically retrieved implants and the evaluation of new vascular prostheses.