Julie Zhang

Julie Zhang is an Associate Science & Standards Liaison  Team Lead with USP Biologics. Her group is responsible for documentary standard and reference standard development for a variety of products from antibiotics, peptides to complex biologics. Dr. Zhang joined USP in 2017, focusing on the antibiotics that use microbial assays in USP General Chapter <81> Antibiotics – Microbial Assays. She is working actively with outside stakeholders and USP internal departments to modernize the monographs in her portfolio. Dr. Zhang has a strong background and experience in the development and regulation of drug products. Prior to joining USP, she worked in pharmaceutical companies with increasing responsibilities, initially as an analytical scientist for method development and validation and progressing to a group manager. Dr. Zhang earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Maryland Baltimore County.