Feng Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist. He is most well known for his central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
About Feng Zhang in brief
Feng Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist. He is most well known for his central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. Zhang currently holds the James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. His lab is focused on using synthetic biology to develop technologies for genome and epigenome engineering to study neurobiology.
His work has been recognized by a number of awards, including the 2011 Perl-UNC Prize and the 2014 Alan T. Waterman Award. In 2018, Zhang was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2019 he received the Harvey Prize of the TechnionIsrael for the year 2018.
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