Position Titles
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Professor, Neurobiology
Biography
Dr. Weizhe Hong is a Professor of Biological Chemistry, Neurobiology, 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.
Awards & Honors
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
2013 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship
2013 Category Winner in Developmental Biology, Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientist
2013 Larry Sandler Memorial Award, Genetics Society of America
2013 Larry Katz Memorial Lecture, Cold Spring Harbor