Dr. Jianqiang Zhang, professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, has been named the Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed Professor in Veterinary Medicine.
The endowed faculty position is one of three named professorships that the Talbots have established in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Rachel Allbaugh, professor of veterinary clinical sciences, and Dr. Heather Greenlee, professor of biomedical sciences, are the other two Talbot Endowed Professors.
A faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine since 2012, Zhang earned his PhD in molecular virology from the University of Kentucky. He also received a MD degree from the Beijing Medical University School of Public Health.
Zhang is internationally renowned for his role in building Iowa State’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory’s virology and molecular diagnostic services unit for food animal diseases into what many consider to be the best in the world. He has an exemplary record of presentation and publication of his work through scientific abstracts and proceedings papers and national and international meetings and in high quality peer-reviewed journals.
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[Source: Iowa State University 19 February 2025]