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ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Weizhe Hong
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine

University of California, Los Angeles
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PhD Program affiliations:
Neuroscience PhD Program
Bioinformatics PhD Program
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology PhD Program
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Dr. Hong is currently an Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and of Neurobiology at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Hong received his PhD degree in 2012 at Stanford University where he studied the molecular mechanism of wiring specificity during neural development. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology studying neural mechanisms of social and emotional behavior. He joined UCLA in 2016 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020. He is also the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience, an Early Career Award from the Society for Social Neuroscience, a Mallinkrodt Scholar Award, a Vallee Scholar Award, a Searle Scholar Award, a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, a McKnight Scholar Award, a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.​
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Positions:
2020–now      Associate Professor (with tenure), Departments of Biological Chemistry / Neurobiology, UCLA
2016–2020     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.               Tsinghua University

Recent awards:
2020    Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience
2020    Vallee Scholar Award, The Vallee Foundation
2020    Mallinckrodt Scholar Award (the 69th Mallinckrodt Scholar), The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
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
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