张志军，教授，神经生物学专业博士，硕士生导师。1999年原南通医学院临床医学本科毕业，2012年获苏州大学医学博士学位。2013年在澳大利亚LA TROBE UNIVERSITY访问交流，2016-2017年在美国DUKE UNIVERSITY医学中心进行博士后工作。中国神经科学学会神经胶质细胞分会委员和江苏省疼痛学会青年委员。江苏省“青蓝工程”中青年学术带头人和优秀青年骨干教师，南通大学创新项目优秀指导老师，第三批国家级精品资源共享课立项项目骨干成员，国家精品课程骨干成员（人体解剖学），国家级优秀教学团队骨干成员（人体解剖学）。承担医学本科生和留学生的人体解剖学、局部解剖学、五官解剖学、Human Anatomy、Regional Anatomy、Sectional Anatomy教学任务。现担任《Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine》、《Neuroscience Letters》和《Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine》等杂志审稿人，国家自然科学基金委员会的通讯评审专家。获得过江苏省高等学校科学技术研究成果二等奖、华东地区青年学者高峰论坛青年学者奖一等奖，第四届全国大学生基础医学创新论坛大赛二等奖（指导老师）、南通市第九届自然科学优秀学术论文二等奖、南通市第八届自然科学优秀学术论文三等奖。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、江苏省自然科学基金面上项目。以第一作者或通信作者发表SCI收录科研学术论文十多篇。
研究方向：疼痛和痒觉的分子和神经机制。
近5年论文代表作（限10篇）
1. Zhi Jun Zhang#, Jian Shuang Guo#, Si Si Li#, Xiao Bo Wu, De Li Cao, Bao Chun Jiang, Peng Bo Jing, Xue Qiang Bai, Chun Hua Li, Zi Han Wu, Ying Lu, and Yong Jing Gao*. TLR8 and its endogenous ligand miR-21 contribute to neuropathic pain in murine DRG. J Exp Med, 2018, 215(12): 3019-3037
2. Sangsu Bang#, Ya-Kai Xie#, Zhi-Jun Zhang#, Zilong Wang, Zhen-Zhong Xu, and Ru-Rong Ji*. GPR37 regulates macrophage phagocytosis and resolution of inflammatory pain. J Clin Invest, 2018, 128(8): 3568-3582
3. Xiao-Bo Wu#, Peng-Bo Jing#, Zhi-Jun Zhang#, De-Li Cao, Ming-Hui Gao, Bao-Chun Jiang, Yong-Jing Gao*. Chemokine receptor CCR2 contributes to neuropathic pain and the associated depression via increasing NR2B-mediated currents in both D1 and D2 dopamine receptor-containing medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens shell. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018, 43(11): 2320-2330
4. Zhi Jun Zhang, Bao Chun Jiang, Yong Jing Gao*. Chemokines in neuron-glial cell interaction and pathogenesis of neuropathic pain. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2017, 74(18):3275-3291.
5. Bao-Chun Jiang#, De-Li Cao#, Xin Zhang#,Zhi-Jun Zhang#, Li-Na He, Chun-Hua Li, Wen-Wen Zhang, Xiao-Bo Wu, Temugin Berta, Ru-Rong Ji, and Yong-Jing Gao*. CXCL13 drives spinal astrocyte activation and neuropathic pain via CXCR5. J Clin Invest. 2016, 126(2):745-61.
6. Bin Qian, Feng Li, Lin-Xia Zhao, Yu-Lin Dong, Yong-Jing Gao,Zhi-Jun Zhang*. Ligustilide Ameliorates Inflammatory Pain and Inhibits TLR4 Upregulation in Spinal Astrocytes Following Complete Freund’s Adjuvant Peripheral Injection. Cell Mol Neurobiol. 2016, 36(1):143-9.
7. Yan Shen#,Zhi-Jun Zhang#, Ming-Di Zhu, Bao-Chun Jiang, Tian Yang, Yong-Jing Gao*. Exogenous induction of HO-1 alleviates vincristine-induced neuropathic pain by reducing spinal glial activation in mice. Neurobiol Dis. 2015, 79:100-10.
8. Jian-Shuang Guo, Peng-Bo Jing, Ji-An Wang , Rui Zhang, Bao-Chun Jiang, Yong-Jing Gao,Zhi-Jun Zhang*. Increased autophagic activity in dorsal root ganglion attenuates neuropathic pain following peripheral nerve injury. Neurosci Lett. 2015 Jul 10;599:158-63.
9. Ming-Di Zhu, Lin-Xia Zhao, Xiao-Tian Wang, Yong-Jing Gao,Zhi-Jun Zhang*. Ligustilide inhibits microglia- mediated proinflammatory cytokines production and inflammatory pain. Brain Res Bull. 2014, 109:54-60.
10. Zhi-Jun Zhang, De-Li Cao, Xin Zhang, Ru-Rong Ji, Yong-Jing Gao*.Chemokine contribution to neuropathic pain: respective induction of CXCL1 and CXCR2 in spinal cord astrocytes and neurons.Pain. 2013, 154(10): 2185-97.