Guoping Feng

The native form of this personal name is Feng Guoping. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Guoping Feng
Guoping Feng in October 2019
Born
Zhejiang, China
Alma mater
Known forAnimal models of psychiatric disease
Awards
  • Beckman Young Investigator Award (2002)[1]
  • McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award (2011–2012)[2]
  • Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award (2008–2011)[3]
  • Gill Young Investigator Award (2012)[4]
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorLinda Hall

Guoping Feng (Chinese: 冯国平) is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. He is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT[5][6] and member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute. He is most notable for studying the synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disease.[7] In addition to developing many genetic-based imaging tools for the study of molecular mechanisms in the brain,[8] he has generated and characterized rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder,[7][9] autism spectrum disorders,[10] and schizophrenia.[11] Feng has also shown that some autism-like behaviors can be corrected in adult mice by manipulating the expression of the SHANK3 gene.[12]

  1. ^ "Guoping Feng". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
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  4. ^ "IU's Gill Center honors Hugo J. Bellen and Guoping Feng for achievements in neuroscience". Indiana University.
  5. ^ "Guoping Feng". McGovern Institute. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Feng, Guoping". MIT BCS. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Guoping Feng". Nature. 448 (7156): xiii. 1 August 2007. doi:10.1038/7156xiiia.
  8. ^ "Calcium reveals connections between neurons".
  9. ^ "Gene Triggers Obsessive Compulsive Disorder-Like Syndrome in Mice". 14 October 2015.
  10. ^ Wolf, Lauren K. (5 March 2012). "The Inner Workings Of Autism". Chemical & Engineering News. 90 (10). ACS.
  11. ^ "How one gene contributes to two diseases". 10 December 2015.
  12. ^ Osborne, Hannah (18 February 2016). "Autism behaviours reversed in mice by switching Shank3 gene on in adulthood". International Business Times. Retrieved 22 April 2019.