Dr. Jia received his Ph.D. in Clinical Examination Diagnostics in 2012. Dr. Jia's focus was clinical biochemistry and he performed routine medical laboratory standardization procedures in hospitals in China. His previous research focused on the early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (CAD) in clinical laboratories. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Hui Zhang in the Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jia is interested in biomarker discovery for prostate cancer and CAD using mass spectrometry approaches.