Guoping Feng
Chinese-American neuroscientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | Zhejiang, China |
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Known for | Animal models of psychiatric disease |
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Fields | Neurobiology |
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Doctoral advisor | Linda Hall |