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Feng Zhang

Feng Zhang

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Genetics
USA
2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
China
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
102
Citations
200963
World Ranking
687
National Ranking
349

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in China Leader Award

Overview

Feng Zhang is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, with a primary focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and biological psychiatry.

The scientist's research covers key topics such as genetic associations and epidemiology, tryptophan and brain disorders, gut microbiota and health, sleep and related disorders, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, migraine and headache studies, and diet and metabolism studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Feng Zhang include Shiqiang Cheng, Yan Wen, Bolun Cheng, Yumeng Jia, and Li Liu.

Their published work often appears in venues like Research Square, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nutrients, PubMed, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Feng Zhang are:

  • Long-term efficacy and safety of erenumab in migraine prevention: Results from a 5-year, open-label treatment phase of a randomized clinical trial, 2021, European Journal of Neurology
  • Pulmonary embolism and 529 human blood metabolites: genetic correlation and two-sample Mendelian randomization study, 2022, BMC Genomic Data
  • Socioeconomic Deprivation Index Is Associated With Psychiatric Disorders: An Observational and Genome-wide Gene-by-Environment Interaction Analysis in the UK Biobank Cohort, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • Oroxylin a promotes PGC-1α/Mfn2 signaling to attenuate hepatocyte pyroptosis via blocking mitochondrial ROS in alcoholic liver disease, 2020, Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of erenumab in patients with chronic migraine: Results from a 52-week, open-label extension study, 2020, Cephalalgia

Best Publications

  • Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

    Le Cong;Le Cong;F. Ann Ran;F. Ann Ran;David M. Cox;David M. Cox;Shuailiang Lin;Shuailiang Lin

  • Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

    F Ann Ran;Patrick D Hsu;Jason Wright;Vineeta Agarwala;Vineeta Agarwala

  • Development and applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome engineering.

    Patrick D. Hsu;Patrick D. Hsu;Patrick D. Hsu;Eric S. Lander;Feng Zhang;Feng Zhang

  • Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout Screening in Human Cells

    Ophir Shalem;Ophir Shalem;Neville E Sanjana;Neville E Sanjana;Ella Hartenian;Xi-Shun Shi

  • Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity.

    Edward S Boyden;Feng Zhang;Ernst Bamberg;Georg Nagel

  • DNA targeting specificity of RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases

    Patrick D Hsu;David Arthur Scott;David Arthur Scott;Joshua A Weinstein;Joshua A Weinstein;F. Ann Ran;F. Ann Ran;F. Ann Ran

  • Improved vectors and genome-wide libraries for CRISPR screening.

    Neville E Sanjana;Ophir Shalem;Feng Zhang

  • Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system.

    Bernd Zetsche;Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Omar O. Abudayyeh;Ian M. Slaymaker

  • One-step generation of mice carrying mutations in multiple genes by CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome engineering.

    Haoyi Wang;Hui Yang;Chikdu S. Shivalila;Meelad M. Dawlaty

  • Double nicking by RNA-guided CRISPR Cas9 for enhanced genome editing specificity

    F. Ann Ran;Patrick D. Hsu;Chie Yu Lin;Jonathan S. Gootenberg

  • Driving fast-spiking cells induces gamma rhythm and controls sensory responses

    Jessica A. Cardin;Marie Carlén;Marie Carlén;Konstantinos Meletis;Konstantinos Meletis;Ulf Knoblich

  • Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance

    Vikaas S. Sohal;Feng Zhang;Ofer Yizhar;Karl Deisseroth

  • Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2

    Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Omar O. Abudayyeh;Jeong Wook Lee;Patrick Essletzbichler

  • RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems

    Wenyan Jiang;David Bikard;David R Cox;David R Cox;Feng Zhang;Feng Zhang

  • In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus Cas9

    F. Ann Ran;Le Cong;Winston X. Yan;David A. Scott

  • Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex

    Silvana Konermann;Mark D. Brigham;Alexandro E. Trevino;Julia Joung

  • Rationally Engineered Cas9 Nucleases With Improved Specificity

    Ian M. Slaymaker;Linyi Gao;Bernd Zetsche;David A. Scott

  • Crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA

    Takashi Yamano;Hiroshi Nishimasu;Hiroshi Nishimasu;Bernd Zetsche;Hisato Hirano

  • C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector

    Omar O. Abudayyeh;Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Silvana Konermann;Silvana Konermann;Silvana Konermann;Julia Joung;Julia Joung;Julia Joung

  • Genome engineering using CRISPR-Cas9 system.

    Le Cong;Feng Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Neville E. Sanjana
Neville E. Sanjana New York University
Junbo Ge
Junbo Ge Fudan University
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
James R. Lupski
James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine
Hong-Wen Deng
Hong-Wen Deng Tulane University
Daniel F. Voytas
Daniel F. Voytas University of Minnesota
Cai-Zhuang Wang
Cai-Zhuang Wang Iowa State University
Kai-Ming Ho
Kai-Ming Ho Iowa State University
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

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