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Su-Chun Zhang is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with significant contributions to molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their work also intersects with neurology, developmental neuroscience, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics within neuroscience and molecular biology. These include pluripotent stem cells research, neuroscience and neural engineering, nerve injury and regeneration, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, as well as Down syndrome and intellectual disability research.

Su-Chun Zhang has published extensively in multiple venues. Frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Stem Cell, Nature Medicine, EJNMMI Research, and Stem Cell Reports.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Human Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Repair Circuits and Restore Neural Function, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • Autologous Transplant Therapy Alleviates Motor and Depressive Behaviors in Parkinsonian Monkeys, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • [18F]FEPPA PET Imaging for Monitoring CD68-Positive Microglia/Macrophage Neuroinflammation in Nonhuman Primates, 2020, EJNMMI Research
  • Altered Patterning of Trisomy 21 Interneuron Progenitors, 2022, Stem Cell Reports
  • Chemically Induced Senescence in Human Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Promotes Phenotypic Presentation of Neurodegeneration, 2021, Aging Cell

Su-Chun Zhang has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their main co-authors include Yunlong Tao, Linghai Kong, Anita Bhattacharyya, Daifeng Wang, and Sakthikumar Mathivanan.

Best Publications

  • In vitro differentiation of transplantable neural precursors from human embryonic stem cells

    Su-Chun Zhang;Marius Wernig;Ian D. Duncan;Oliver Brüstle

  • Magnetodendrimers allow endosomal magnetic labeling and in vivo tracking of stem cells

    Jeff W.M. Bulte;Jeff W.M. Bulte;Trevor Douglas;Brian P. Witwer;Su-Chun Zhang

  • Neural differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells follows developmental principles but with variable potency

    Bao Yang Hu;Jason P. Weick;Junying Yu;Li Xiang Ma

  • Specification of motoneurons from human embryonic stem cells

    Xue Jun Li;Zhong Wei Du;Ewa D. Zarnowska;Matthew Pankratz

  • Neurotransplantation of magnetically labeled oligodendrocyte progenitors: magnetic resonance tracking of cell migration and myelination.

    Jeff W.M. Bulte;Su-Chun Zhang;P. van Gelderen;Vít Herynek

  • Modeling early retinal development with human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells.

    Jason S. Meyer;Rebecca L. Shearer;Elizabeth E. Capowski;Lynda S. Wright

  • Directed Differentiation of Dopaminergic Neuronal Subtypes from Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Yiping Yan;Dali Yang;Ewa D. Zarnowska;Zhongwei Du

  • Pax6 is a human neuroectoderm cell fate determinant.

    Xiaoqing Zhang;Cindy T. Huang;Jing Chen;Matthew T. Pankratz

  • Specification of transplantable astroglial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells

    Robert Krencik;Jason P Weick;Yan Liu;Zhi-Jian Zhang

  • Spinal cord reconstitution with homologous neural grafts enables robust corticospinal regeneration

    Ken Kadoya;Paul Lu;Paul Lu;Kenny Nguyen;Corinne Lee-Kubli

  • Directed Neural Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells via an Obligated Primitive Anterior Stage

    Matthew T. Pankratz;Xue Jun Li;Timothy M. LaVaute;Elizabeth A. Lyons

  • Functional Neural Development from Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Accelerated Synaptic Activity via Astrocyte Coculture

    Michael Johnson;Jason P. Weick;Robert A. Pearce;Su Chun Zhang

  • Differentiation of spinal motor neurons from pluripotent human stem cells

    Bao-Yang Hu;Su-Chun Zhang

  • Oligodendroglial modulation of fast axonal transport in a mouse model of hereditary spastic paraplegia

    Julia M. Edgar;Mark McLaughlin;Donald Yool;Su Chun Zhang

  • Inhibition of autoimmune encephalomyelitis by a tetracycline

    Natalija Popovic;Anna Schubart;Brian D. Goetz;Su‐Chun Zhang

  • Modeling ALS with iPSCs Reveals that Mutant SOD1 Misregulates Neurofilament Balance in Motor Neurons

    Hong Chen;Hong Chen;Kun Qian;Kun Qian;Zhongwei Du;Jingyuan Cao

  • Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Dopaminergic Neurons Reverse Functional Deficit in Parkinsonian Rats

    Dali Yang;Zhi-Jian Zhang;Michael Oldenburg;Melvin Ayala

  • Generation and expansion of highly pure motor neuron progenitors from human pluripotent stem cells

    Zhong-Wei Du;Hong Chen;Huisheng Liu;Jianfeng Lu

  • Coordination of sonic hedgehog and Wnt signaling determines ventral and dorsal telencephalic neuron types from human embryonic stem cells

    Xue Jun Li;Xiaoqing Zhang;M. Austin Johnson;Zhi Bo Wang

  • Directed Differentiation of Ventral Spinal Progenitors and Motor Neurons from Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Small Molecules

    Xue‐Jun Li;Bao‐Yang Hu;Stefanie A. Jones;Ying‐Sha Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff W. M. Bulte
Jeff W. M. Bulte Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
James A. Thomson
James A. Thomson University of California, Santa Barbara
Joseph A. Frank
Joseph A. Frank National Institutes of Health
Eric A. Johnson
Eric A. Johnson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bradley T. Christian
Bradley T. Christian University of Wisconsin–Madison
Walter F. Block
Walter F. Block University of Wisconsin–Madison
Albee Messing
Albee Messing University of Wisconsin–Madison
Juha O. Rinne
Juha O. Rinne Turku University Hospital
Robert A. Pearce
Robert A. Pearce University of Wisconsin–Madison
Trevor Douglas
Trevor Douglas Indiana University

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