Dr. Zhu was born in China and attended Peking University in Beijing, China for his B.S. and obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He has worked in pharmaceutical R&D companies for over 8 years (Abbott/AbbVie and self-founded MetabQuest) before joined UTEP and BBRC as an assistant professor in the fall of 2015.

• Ph D in Chemistry, Northwestern University (2006)

• Clopidogrel as a donor probe and thioenol derivatives as flexible promoieties for enabling H₂S biomedicine. Nature communications 9 1 (2018), Yaoqiu Zhu, E L. Romero, X Ren, A J. Sanca, C Du , C Liu, Zubair Karim, Fatima Z. Alshbool, Fadi Khasawneh, J Zhou, D Zhong, B Geng.

• Are We There Yet? H2S Pharmacotherapy through Thioenol-co-Drug Development (2020), Volume Honolulu, Hawaii, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• Four Distinctive Chemical Approaches for Developing Novel Anticancer Therapeutics (2020), Volume Guangzhou, China, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• Facile Total Synthesis of the False-Positive Anticancer Natural Product (−)-Pavidolide B and Its Bioactive Stereoisomers (2020), Volume Shanghai, China, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Tango Performance of Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry for Solving the Clinical Conundrums of Plavix (2020), Volume Columbia, MO, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Tango Performance of Organic Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry for Solving the Clinical Conundrums of Plavix (2020), Volume El Paso, TX, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• Four Distinctive Chemical Approaches for Developing Novel Anticancer Therapeutics. (2020), Volume Tucson, AZ, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Tango Performance of Organic Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry for Solving the Clinical Conundrums of Plavix (2020), Volume El Paso, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Tango Performance of Organic Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry for Solving the Clinical Conundrums of Plavix (2020), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Chemistry of a Blockbuster Antithrombotic Medicine, Clopidogrel (2018), Volume Wuhan University, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• The Chemistry of a Blockbuster Antithrombotic Medicine, Clopidogrel (2018), Volume Lanzhou University, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• Chemical Probes for Studying the Structure and Mechanism of Purinergic GPCR P2Y12 (2018), Volume Nashville, TN, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• Enabling H2S Biomedicine: Identification of a Clinical Donor Probe and a Novel Class of Flexible Promoeity (2017), Volume Overton Center Lubbock, TX, Yaoqiu Zhu.
• New Vistas in Clopidogrel Bioactivation for Personalized Antithrombotic Treatment (2017), Volume Holderness, NH, Yaoqiu Zhu.

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