Dr. Jia-Shi Zhu graduated in 1975 from Capital Institute of Medicine (clinical medicine), Beijing China, and in 1993 from Stanford University (molecular and cellular physiology). Some of his credentials include Resident Physician (internal medicine) and Medical Director of GI Functional Testing Lab, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing China; Postdoctoral Fellow at Seton Medical Center, La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, and Stanford University School of Medicine (1984-1986, 1993-1995); and Staff Research Associate, Stanford University School of Medicine (1996). He has obtained four scholarship/fellowship awards and three research awards/grants in clinical gastroenterology and gastrointestinal biochemistry, and he is a member of six American medical societies. He has published 23 papers/book chapters and 45 meeting abstracts.

Since 1996 Dr. Jia-Shi Zhu has served as Manager of Clinical Pharmacology and Director of Clinical Affairs for Pharmanex. He manages the China Clinical Pharmacology Lab in Beijing, where he is responsible for all pharmacological and clinical research projects, and he assists pharmacological and clinical research projects and scientific issues in the United States and other countries.