Faculty

ZHANG Mingqiang

Associate Professor

Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital

zmqa01681@btch.edu.cn

Education and Employment

Mar 2026 – Present, Deputy Director, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University

Dec 2025 – Present, Associate Professor, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University

Dec 2024 – Present, Deputy Chief Attending Physician, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University

Jun 2023 – Nov 2024, Attending Physician, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University

Jun 2022 – Dec 2022, Faculty Development Program (FDP) Scholar, Tsinghua University & Harvard Medical School

Dec 2020 – Nov 2021, Global Clinical Study and Research Training (GCSRT) Scholar, Harvard Medical School

Dec 2019 – May 2023, Attending Physician, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University

Jul 2016 – Nov 2019, Resident Physician & Chief Resident, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University

Sep 2013 – Jul 2016, PhD in Internal Medicine (Respiratory), Tsinghua University School of Medicine & Peking Union Medical College

Sep 2010 – Jul 2013, Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine (Respiratory), Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Sep 2005 – Jul 2010, Clinical Medicine, Southwest Medical University (formerly Luzhou Medical College)

Research Field

1. Pathogenesis of chronic airway diseases including bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and bronchiectasis

2. Pathogenesis of respiratory allergic diseases, such as allergic asthma and pollinosis

3. Biologic targeted therapy and specific immunotherapy for bronchial asthma

Selected Publications

1. Zhang MQ, Zhao L, Zeng P, Mu X, Zhao J. Inflammatory and pulmonary function characteristics of bronchial asthma induced by COVID‑19 infection. Biomed Rep. 2025 Apr 22;22(6):101.

2. Zhang MQ, Luo Q, Li X, Mu X, Wu W. Pulmonary Artery Pseudoaneurysm Caused by Pulmonary Mucormycosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Apr 1;209(7):879-880.

3. Zhang MQ, Wan Y, Han J, Li J, Gong H, Mu X. The clinical association of programmed death-1/PD-L1 axis, myeloid derived suppressor cells subsets and regulatory T cells in peripheral blood of stable COPD patients. PeerJ. 2024 Mar 27;12:e16988.

4. Wan Y, Mu X, Zhao J, Li L, Xu W, Zhang M. Myeloid‑derived suppressor cell accumulation induces Treg expansion and modulates lung malignancy progression. Biomed Rep. 2024 Mar 1;20(4):68.

5. Shi X, Zhang M, Wang G, Chen G, Hu R, Lee X, Li X. The diversity of peripheral blood T cells and myeloid-derived suppressor cells in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy. Clin Nephrol. 2024 Jun;101(6):287-297.

6. Liu Z, Zhang M, Shi X, Zhao W, Cao C, Jin L, Wang Y, Xiao J. Decreased programmed cell death ligand 2-positive monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells and programmed cell death protein 1-positive T-regulatory cells in patients with type 2 diabetes: implications for immunopathogenesis. Endocr Connect. 2023 Aug 3;12(9):e230218.

7. Gong H, Zhao J, Xu W, Wan Y, Mu X, Zhang MQ.The distribution of myeloid- derived suppressor cells subsets and up-regulation of programmed death-1/PD-L1 axis in peripheral blood of adult CAP patients. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0291455.

8. Zhang M, Shi X, Zhao J, Guo W, Zhou J. Recruitment of myeloid‑derived suppressor cells and regulatory T‑cells is associated with the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction. Biomed Rep. 2023 Jul 17;19(2):55.

9. Zhang X, Zhang MQ, Li L, Chen W, Zhou W, Gao J.IRAK-M knockout promotes allergic airway inflammation, but not airway hyperresponsiveness, in house dust mite-induced experimental asthma model. J Thorac Dis. 2021 Mar;13(3):1413-1426.

10. Liu Y, Zhang MQ, Lou L, Li L, Zhang Y, Chen W, Zhou W, Bai Y, Gao J. IRAK-M Associates with Susceptibility to Adult-Onset Asthma and Promotes Chronic Airway Inflammation. J Immunol. 2019 Feb 1;202(3):899-911.

11. Zhang MQ, Chen W, Zhou W, Bai Y, Gao J. Critical Role of IRAK-M in Regulating Antigen- induced Airway Inflammation. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2017 Nov;57(5):547-559.

12. Zhang MQ, Wan Y, Jin Y, Xin JB, Zhang JC, Xiong XZ, Chen L, Chen G. Cigarette smoking promotes inflammation in patients with COPD by affecting the polarization and survival of Th/Tregs through up-regulation of muscarinic receptor 3 and 5 expression. PLoS One. 2014 Nov 6;9(11):e112350.

Awards

Excellent Worker, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, 2020 & 2024

Outstanding Communist Party Member, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, 2022

Service Model, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, 2025

Principal Investigator, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81900021), 2020–2022

Individual Award for Outstanding Service and Support, Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Selected for the First “Young Core Talent Training Program” and “Qiming Talent Program”, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital

Membership

Member, Youth Committee, Infection Expert Committee, Beijing Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine

Member, Respiratory Disease Expert Committee, China Health Promotion Foundation

Member, Respiratory Branch, World Endoscopy Association

Reviewer for SCI journals: The Clinical Respiratory Journal, Pulmonary Medicine, Journal of Asthma, Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, etc.

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