Guoping Feng

Guoping Feng
Born Zhejiang Province, China
Fields Neurobiology
Institutions
Alma mater
Doctoral advisor Linda Hall
Known for Animal models of psychiatric disease
Notable awards
  • Beckman Young Investigator Award (2002)
  • McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award (2006)
  • Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award (2006)
  • Gill Young Investigator Award (2012)[1]

Guoping Feng is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT[2][3] and member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute most notable for studying the synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disease.[4] In addition to developing many genetic-based imaging tools for the study of molecular mechanisms in the brain,[5] he has generated and characterized rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder,[6][7] autism spectrum disorders,[8] and schizophrenia.[9] Feng has also shown that some autism-like behaviors can be corrected in adult mice by manipulating the expression of the Shank3 gene.[10]

Selected publications

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