Zhiping Weng
Zhiping Weng | |
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| Alma mater | University of Science and Technology of China (BSc) Boston University (PhD) |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) |
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| Institutions | University of Massachusetts |
| Thesis | Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)[9] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).[when?]
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