Overview
Feng Zhang is a crispr engineering specialist with an H-index of 205 at Broad Institute (Faculty). Has been published in Nature Chemistry, Nature Reviews Materials, Energy & Environmental Science. Based in United States.
Biography
Feng Zhang is a Chinese-born American biochemist and neuroscientist. He is the James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He also holds appointments as an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, as a professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Biological Engineering, and as an HHMI investigator. Zhang is most well known for his central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies. In 2025, he was awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States confers for achievements related to technological progress.
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5 Publications
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NatureClin Gastroenterol HepatolInt J NanomedicineNat AgingNat Biotechnol
Key Publications
Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity.
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Exosome Derived from Mesenchymal Stem Cells Alleviates Hypertrophic Scar by Inhibiting the Fibroblasts via TNFSF-13/HSPG2 Signaling Pathway.
The X-Age Project to construct a Chinese aging clock.
Targeted delivery of diverse biomolecules with engineered bacterial nanosyringes.
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