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Jiawei Zhou, PhD

Assistant Professor

Jiawei Zhou

Assistant Professor


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PHONE
919-966-9363
EMAIL
zhoujw@unc.edu
ADDRESS
301 Pharmacy Lane, 2311 Kerr Hall, CB #7569, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599

Jiawei Zhou, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Prior to joining the faculty, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a clinical pharmacometrician, contributing to late-stage drug development across various therapeutic areas, including COVID mRNA vaccine development. Dr. Zhou earned her B.S. in pharmaceutical sciences from Tsinghua University in China and her Ph.D. from UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Her expertise lies in population PK/PD modeling, machine learning, and translational PK/PD for new therapeutic modalities.

The Zhou lab focuses on two research areas: (a) Integrating pharmacometrics and quantitative system pharmacology with AI/machine learning to optimize oncology clinical trials and enhance cancer patient care; (b) Advancing mRNA lipid-nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics: Leveraging engineering and pharmacometrics modeling tools to develop and translate this new modality across diverse disease areas.