Guoping Feng

Guoping Feng
Guoping Feng
	Guoping Feng in October 2019
Born	Zhejiang, China
Alma mater	Zhejiang University (B.M.S. 1982); Shanghai Second Medical University (M.S. 1985); State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D. 1994);
Known for	Animal models of psychiatric disease
Awards	Beckman Young Investigator Award (2002); McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award (2011–2012); Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award (2008–2011); Gill Young Investigator Award (2012);
	Scientific career
Fields	Neurobiology
Institutions	Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Broad Institute;
Doctoral advisor	Linda 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 and member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute. He is most notable for studying the synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disease. In addition to developing many genetic-based imaging tools for the study of molecular mechanisms in the brain, he has generated and characterized rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and schizophrenia. Feng has also shown that some autism-like behaviors can be corrected in adult mice by manipulating the expression of the SHANK3 gene.