Areas of Focus
- Intracellular metabolic messenger functions
- Metabolic regulation of protein homeostasis
- Interactions in disease microenvironments affecting neural, metabolic, and tumor tissues
Work Experience
- Researcher at Beijing Institute of Life Sciences
- Associate Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor in Biomedical Sciences: Nanjing University to National University of Singapore
- PhD in Biology: Nanyang Technological University
- Postdoctoral Researcher: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Received funding from National Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scientists and other major research projects
Publications
- Research papers in Molecular Cell, Nature Metabolism, PNAS, and Nature Communications, Feng Rao
Awards
- Selected for Guangdong Pearl River Talent Plan
- Shenzhen Outstanding Young Scientist Fund recipient