Yu Zhang Joins Penn Dental Medicine
Penn Dental Medicine welcomes Yu Zhang, BS, MS, PhD, as professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences.
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine welcomes Yu Zhang, BS, MS, PhD, as professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences. Zhang, a leading authority in dental biomaterials, officially joined the School in July, coming to Penn Dental Medicine from New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD).
Zhang’s academic career spans 15 years with NYUCD, where he most recently served as professor with tenure (2018–2020) in the Department of Biomaterials and Biomimetics. Throughout his time at NYUCD, Zhang was an active research mentor, advising postdoctoral fellows, PhD, and Masters students on biomaterials-related research.
He has had over 10 years of continuous support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as significant grant funding from the dental industry and the National Science Foundation. Zhang presently has two active R01 grant awards from the NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research — one project focusing on the development of a nanostructured dental zirconia that is both strong and translucent and the other working to improve the fracture resistance of porcelain-veneered dental prostheses through the tailoring of residual stresses.
