Xiaoshu Zhu

Professor Xiaoshu Zhu, PhD, Med, BMed, is the Associate Dean (International) of the School of Health Sciences at Western Sydney University.

Xiaoshu is a leading international Chinese medicine academic, senior researcher and registered Chinese medicine practitioner in Australia. Xiaoshu is the inaugural Co-Director of the Chinese Medicine Centre, a global partnership between Western Sydney University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Professor Zhu holds a distinguished position, as an Honorary Professor at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine respectively.

Professor Zhu is also the Director of Academic Program, the Chinese Medicine Program at the University and serves as a Leader of Cancer Research at the Chinese Medicine Centre and NICM Health Research Institute.

Professor Zhu is highly influential in the field, she serves as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) providing her advice on the complementary medicine research strategy and methodology. Professor Zhu is a long-standing committee member of the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) representing Australia (ISO/TC249) in developing international standards of traditional Chinese medicine (Standards Australia HE-031). She is a working editor for the Gynaecology and Fertility Group, the Cochrane Collaboration. 

Professor Zhu supervised higher degree research students (HDRs including PhD) and many overseas Early-mid Career Researchers with Q1 health and cancer publications.

She has been awarded $3.5M in funding through competitive grants and philanthropic funds as well as publication prizes.