Position Titles
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Professor, Neurobiology
Biography
Dr. Weizhe Hong is an Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Hong received a B.S. degree in biological sciences at Tsinghua University. When he was in high school and college, he worked on mechanisms of protein folding and microbial stress response. He received his PhD degree in 2012 at Stanford University, under the guidance of Liqun Luo. His PhD research focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of wiring specificity during olfactory system development. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, working with his advisor David Anderson on neural mechanisms underlying social and emotional behaviors. Dr. Hong received the Genetics Society of America’s Larry Sandler Memorial Award for the best PhD dissertation on the Drosophila research, and presented the Larry Katz Memorial Lecture in the Cold Spring Harbor Conference for the best PhD dissertation on neural circuit research.
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
