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Zosuquidar
Zosuquidar (LY335979) is a synthetic quinoline and potent, selective inhibitor of P-glycoprotein, tested against multidrug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia but never approved; it remains an experimental research tool.
Zotarolimus
Zotarolimus (ABT-578), a sirolimus analog, is the antiproliferative drug in Medtronic's Endeavor, Resolute Integrity, Resolute Onyx, and Onyx Frontier coronary stents; it inhibits mTOR via FKBP12 binding.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, open-source reference management application for collecting, organizing, annotating, and citing research sources, first released in 2006 at George Mason University and now run by the nonprofit Digital Scholar.
Zou
Zou: Minoan neopalatial country house near the village of Zou, south of Siteia, Crete, excavated by N. Platon in the 1950s; built MM IIIB, short use into LM IA, over 700 square metres, notable clay idol head.
Zou Department
Zou Department (Département du Zou, also Département du Centre) is a first-order administrative division of Benin with 628,684 people, area 5,243 km², nine communes including Abomey and Bohicon, and five neighboring departments.
Zou Guoying
Zou Guoying (邹国营, born 1953) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Sacon Group, the kitchen-appliance maker in Yuyao, Zhejiang, and led it until its 2017 sale to Sunrise East.
Zou Hao
Zou Hao (邹浩, 1060–1111) was a Northern Song Confucian scholar-official from Changzhou, exiled in 1099 for opposing Emperor Zhezong's installation of Consort Liu as empress.
Zou Jingyuan
Zou Jingyuan (邹敬园), born 1998 in Yibin, Sichuan, is a Chinese artistic gymnast nicknamed King of Parallel Bars: two-time Olympic parallel bars champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), four-time world parallel bars champion, and two-time world team champion.
Zou Kai
Zou Kai (邹凯) is a Chinese artistic gymnast, born in 1988 in Luzhou, Sichuan, who specialized in floor and horizontal bar, winning five Olympic golds and one bronze.
Zou Lu
Zou Lu (邹鲁) was a Ming dynasty censor, born in 1450, known for falsely impeaching minister He Qiaoxin and for the death of He Shunbin in his custody.
Zou Shouyi
Zou Shouyi (邹守益, 1491–1562) was a Ming dynasty official and leading disciple of Wang Yangming who, twice punished for remonstrating with the Jiajing emperor, spent over twenty years lecturing and founding academies in Jiangxi.
Zou Yan
Zou Yan (邹衍) was a Warring States period philosopher from the state of Qi, remembered as the era's sole master of the Five Virtues doctrine of dynastic change.
Zou Yan's Theory of the Five Phases and Dynastic Succession
Zou Yan's theory of the Five Phases and dynastic succession (邹衍五德终始说) is a Warring States doctrine explaining dynastic change through the cyclical conquest of five virtues.
Zou Yang
Zou Yang (邹阳, c. 206 – c. 129 BC) was a Western Han writer from Linzi, Shandong, famous for his prison letter to the King of Liang.
Zou Yitian
Zou Yitian (邹倚天) is a Chinese quantitative investor who co-founded Blackwing Asset in Shanghai in 2014 and serves as its chief investment officer and founding partner.
Zou Yuanbiao
Zou Yuanbiao (邹元标, 1551–1624) was a Ming official and Neo-Confucian teacher from Jishui, Jiangxi, exiled for a memorial against Zhang Juzheng and later Left Censor-in-chief.
Zou Zhi
Zou Zhi (邹智, 1466–1491) was a Chinese Confucian scholar-official from Hezhou who passed the jinshi examination at about twenty-two, memorialized the Hongzhi emperor, and died in exile in Guangdong.
Zouave
Zouave: light infantry of the French Army, 1830 to 1962, born of the conquest of Algeria and named for the Kabyle zouaoua tribes; famed for chéchia and sarouel uniforms, elite status, and influence on Papal and American Civil War units.
Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani is a Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge known for probabilistic machine learning, and a Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind.
Zoucheng
Zoucheng (邹城市, Zōuchéng) is a county-level city in southern Shandong under Jining, birthplace of Mencius, with 1.17 million people (2020), 1,616 km², and a coal economy centered on the Yanzhou coalfield.
Zouding Xuetang Zhangcheng
Zouding Xuetang Zhangcheng (奏定学堂章程) was a set of Qing school regulations drafted by Zhang Baixi, Rongqing, and Zhang Zhidong, promulgated in 1904 as China's first nationwide school system.
Zoufaques
Zoufaques, an ancient place on Barrington Atlas map 11 (BAtlas 11 C2) in Pas-de-Calais, France, known for the Gallo-Roman villa of Wolphus with 4th- to early 5th-century Germanic occupation evidence.
Zouhair Bahaoui
Zouhair Bahaoui (زهير البهاوي) is a Moroccan pop singer and producer born in 1995 in Tétouan, whose Darija-language singles made him a leading artist of the Moroccan pop wave.
Zouk power plant
The Zouk power plant is a thermal power station at Zouk Mosbeh on Lebanon's coast, operated by Electricité du Liban and its largest thermal plant by capacity.
Zouk Singapore
Zouk Singapore is a nightclub opened in 1991 by Lincoln Cheng, Singapore's longest-running, ranked as high as No. 3 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
Zouxian power station
Zouxian power station (华电国际邹县发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Zoucheng, Shandong, China, with eight units totaling 4,540 MW, operated by China Huadian and listed among the largest power stations in the world.
Zovaglutide
Zovaglutide (ZT002) is an investigational once-monthly GLP-1 receptor agonist peptide injection by Beijing QL Biopharmaceutical for obesity and type 2 diabetes, in phase 3 (HORIZON-1) in China, distinguished from weekly agents like semaglutide by monthly dosing.
Zoxamide
Zoxamide (RH-7281, Zoxium) is a benzamide oomycete fungicide, FRAC Group 22 B3, that covalently binds fungal β-tubulin to block microtubule polymerization; registered in the US in 2001 for potato late blight and grape downy mildew.
Zoya Afroz
Zoya Afroz (ज़ोया अफ़रोज़), born 1994 in Lucknow, is an Indian actress and model: child artist in Hum Saath-Saath Hain (1999), Femina Miss India 2013 second runner-up, Miss India International 2021, and Priya in Netflix's Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web (2026).
Zoya Akhtar (ज़ोया अख़्तर)
Zoya Akhtar (ज़ोया अख़्तर), born 1972, Indian Hindi-cinema director, screenwriter, and Tiger Baby producer; directed Luck by Chance, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dil Dhadakne Do, Gully Boy (India's Oscar entry), and The Archies, and co-created Made in Heaven.