PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)
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Dr. Weizhe Hong
Professor Department of Neurobiology, Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Bioengineering, Samuel School of Engineering University of California, Los Angeles |
PhD Program affiliations:
Neuroscience PhD Program Bioinformatics PhD Program Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology PhD Program Bioengineering PhD Program |
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Dr. Hong is a Professor of Neurobiology, Biological Chemistry, and Bioengineering at the University of California Los Angeles. His research aims to uncover the fundamental neural mechanisms underlying social behavior, with a specific focus on empathy and prosociality. Dr. Hong earned his PhD degree in 2012 from Stanford University and was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. In 2016, he joined UCLA as Assistant Professor, and he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020 and to Full Professor in 2023. 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:
2023–now Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry / Neurobiology / Bioengineering, UCLA
2020–2023 Associate Professor, 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:
2021 John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research Prize, UCLA
2021 W. M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Award
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
2016 Whitehall Foundation Grant
2013 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
2013 Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science & 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
Positions:
2023–now Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry / Neurobiology / Bioengineering, UCLA
2020–2023 Associate Professor, 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:
2021 John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research Prize, UCLA
2021 W. M. Keck Foundation Junior Faculty Award
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
2016 Whitehall Foundation Grant
2013 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
2013 Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science & 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