Zhen Yang, associate professor of Nanjing Agricultural University, master's supervisor, practicing veterinarian in China and the United States, member of the organizing committee of the AVDC, is currently the deputy secretary-general of the Swine Veterinary Branch of the Chinese Veterinary Medical Association, the director of the Cultural Branch of the Chinese Veterinary Branch, and the director of the Animal Welfare Branch of the Chinese Veterinary Medical Association.
He graduated from South China Agricultural University in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in agronomy, and from 2012 to 2013, he studied in the infectious disease group of Shenzhen BGI Research Institute. From 2014 to 2015, he studied at Kansas State University's College of Agriculture. He graduated from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 2019 with a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine and a Certificate in Swine Medicine from the University of Minnesota, and received a Master's degree in Veterinary Science from the University of Minnesota in 2022. He has studied in Smithfield, CVS, Pipestone, Coastal Food Group and other pig producers in the United States, completed the primary and advanced dairy cow medicine training at the University of Minnesota, completed the beef cattle medical clinical training at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States, and from 2019 to 2020, he went to the Animal Health Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Headquarters to participate in transboundary zoonotic diseases such as African swine fever and new crown pneumonia.
His research interests include large-scale pig farms, cattle production medicine, transboundary zoonotic diseases, wildlife diseases, and One Health research. He is also the coordinator of the Belt and Road International Major Cross-border Animal Disease Diagnosis and Immunization Innovation Institute, he specializes in farm animal production medicine, and serves as a consultant for several domestic group breeding companies and animal health companies.
