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Xiaofen Zong
Medical School
Wuhan University
Hubei
Language: English, Chinese
Schizophrenia
Neuropharmacology
Pathology
Cognitive Phenotypes
Mental Diseases
Biomarkers
Drug Response
Genetics
Neuroimaging
Cross-Diagnostic
Areas of Focus
- Pathology and neuropharmacological mechanisms of schizophrenia
- Cross-diagnostic studies on cognitive phenotypes of mental diseases
Work Experience
- 2015-2016: Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
- 2017-2019: Attending Physician, Psychiatry Department, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University
- 2019-present: Associate Chief Physician, Psychiatry Department, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University
- 2022-present: Associate Professor, Wuhan University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2005-2009: Bachelor of Medicine, Henan University
- 2009-2012: Master of Medicine, Xinxiang Medical University
- 2012-2016: PhD in Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University
- Published over 30 SCI papers, including 15 as first or corresponding author
- Presided over multiple research grants and obtained national patents
Publications
- Virtual histology of morphometric similarity network after risperidone monotherapy and imaging-epigenetic biomarkers for treatment response in first-episode schizophrenia, Xiaofen Zong, Jiangbo Zhang, Lei Li, Wei Liao, Tao Yao, Simeng Ma, Lijun Kang, Nan Zhang, Zhaowen Nie, Zhongchun Liu, Junjie Zheng, Xujun Duan, and Maolin Hu, 2022
- Risperidone-induced changes in DNA methylation in peripheral blood from first-episode schizophrenia patients parallel changes in neuroimaging and cognitive phenotypes, Maolin Hu, Yan Xia, Xiaofen Zong, John A. Sweeney, Jeffrey R. Bishop, Yanhui Liao, Gina Giase, Bingshan Li, Leah H. Rubin, Yunpeng Wang, Zongchang Li, Ying He, Xiaogang Chen, Chunyu Liu, Chao Chen, Jinsong Tang, 2022
- A dissociation in effects of risperidone monotherapy on functional and anatomical connectivity within the default mode network, Xiaofen Zong, Maolin Hu, Spiro P. Pantazatos, J. John Mann, Gaohua Wang, Yanhui Liao, Zhong-Chun Liu, Wei Liao, Tao Yao, Zongchang Li, Ying He, Luxian Lv, Deen Sang, Jinsong Tang, Huafu Chen, Junjie Zheng, and Xiaogang Chen, 2019
- DNA methylation in schizophrenia: progress and challenges, Xiaofen Zong, Maolin Hu, Zongchang Li, Hongbao Cao, Xiaogang Chen and Jinsong Tang, 2015
Awards
- Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress Second Prize
- 2021 China Outstanding Young Physician
