ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
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Dr. Weizhe Hong
Assistant Professor Department of Biological Chemistry Department of Neurobiology David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles |
PhD Program affiliations:
Neuroscience PhD Program Bioinformatics PhD Program Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology PhD Program |
Dr. Hong is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Department of Neurobiology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (since 2016). Dr. Hong received his PhD degree in 2012 at Stanford University, under the guidance of Liqun Luo. His PhD research focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of wiring specificity during olfactory system development. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, working with his advisor David Anderson on neural mechanisms underlying social and emotional behaviors. Dr. Hong received the Genetics Society of America’s Larry Sandler Memorial Award for the best PhD dissertation on the Drosophila research, and presented the Larry Katz Memorial Lecture in the Cold Spring Harbor Conference for the best PhD dissertation on neural circuit research.
Positions:
2016–now Assistant Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry / Neurobiology, UCLA
Education/training:
2012–2015 Postdoc California Institute of Technology
2006–2012 Ph.D. Stanford University
2002–2006 B.S. in Biology Tsinghua University
Recent awards:
2019 Early Career Award, Society for Social Neuroscience
2019 McKnight Scholar Award, McKnight Foundation
2018 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
2018 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award
2017 Searle Scholar Award, Searle Scholars Program
2017 Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2016 NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
2013 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
2013 Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientist
2013 Larry Sandler Memorial Award, Genetics Society of America
2012 Larry Katz Memorial Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting in Neural Circuits
Positions:
2016–now Assistant Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry / Neurobiology, UCLA
Education/training:
2012–2015 Postdoc California Institute of Technology
2006–2012 Ph.D. Stanford University
2002–2006 B.S. in Biology Tsinghua University
Recent awards:
2019 Early Career Award, Society for Social Neuroscience
2019 McKnight Scholar Award, McKnight Foundation
2018 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
2018 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award
2017 Searle Scholar Award, Searle Scholars Program
2017 Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
2016 NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
2013 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
2013 Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientist
2013 Larry Sandler Memorial Award, Genetics Society of America
2012 Larry Katz Memorial Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor Meeting in Neural Circuits