Zhiping Weng

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Zhiping Weng
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (BSc)
Boston University (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts
ThesisProtein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997)
Doctoral advisorCharles DeLisi[2]

Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of Biomedical Research and founding Chair of Department of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[3][4] Prior to that, she was the Director of the Program in Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[1][5][6][7] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[8][9]

Education

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Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China[10] and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.[11][2]

Career and research

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Weng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.[1] She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,[12] leadership of ENCODE,[13][14] PsychENCODE,[15] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).[1][5][6]

Awards and honors

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Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[9] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).[when?]

References

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