Jinwei Zhang, Ph.D
(last updated: 02/24/2023)
Current Position
- 10/2022 – present
- Senior Investigator & Section Chief
- Section on Structural Biology of Noncoding RNAs and Ribonucleoproteins
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases / NIH
- Bethesda, MD
Former Positions
- 09/2015 – 10/2022
- Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases / NIH
- Bethesda, MD
- 2011 – 2015
- Research Fellow
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- 2009 – 2011
- Research Associate
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Ph.D in Biomolecular Chemistry, 2009; Advisor: Dr. Robert Landick
Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2002
Scientific and Medical Societies
Member,The RNA Society.
Member, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
Member, American Chemical Society
Leadership Roles & Activities (2015- present)
I. Hosting and Sponsorship:
2022. Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Katerina Grafanaki, M.D, Ph.D, University of Patras, Greece
(Co-sponsor with Dr. Glenn Merlino, NCI)
2022. RNA Research Scholar Exchange Awardee, Elizabeth Tidwell, University of Michigan RNA
Center For RNA Biomedicine
2019. Fulbright Scholar, Prof. Constantinos Stathopoulos, University of Patras, Greece.
2019. Fulbright Scholar, Ilias Skeparnias, M.S., University of Patras, Greece.
II. Grant and Promotion Review:
2023. Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
2022. National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.
2022. Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
2022. Tenure Evaluation Reviewer, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, China.
2021. Czech Science Foundation (GACR), Czech Republic.
2020. Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.), Greece.
2019. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada.
2019. National Science Centre Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Poland.
2019. Israel Science Foundation / Singapore National Research Foundation, Israel/Singapore.
2019. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada.
2018. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada.
III. Meeting Organization and Chairing:
- Co-organizer, the 30th tRNA Conference, Athens, Greece, 09/2026 (scheduled)
- Session Chair, 2023 RiboClub Annual Meeting, Sherbrooke, Canada, 09/2023 (scheduled)
- Organizing Committee Member and Session Chair, The 12nd International Symposium on Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases (AARS2019), Hangzhou, China, 11/2019.
IV. Invited/Selected Oral Presentations (2023 - present):
- Discussion leader, 2023 RiboClub Annual Meeting, Sherbrooke, Canada, 09/2023 (scheduled)
- Keynote speaker, 14th Annual Northwestern Biophysics Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL., 09/2023 (scheduled).
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD. 09/2023 (scheduled).
- Invited speaker, the 28th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, Singapore, 05/2023 (scheduled).
- Invited speaker, 2023 RNA Biology Symposium at the National Cancer Institute, 04/2023 (scheduled).
- Invited speaker, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 04/2023 (scheduled).
- Guest lecturer, BISI632 (CBMG688F)-Gene Expression, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 02/2023 (scheduled).
Honor, Awards, and Recognitions (2014 - present)
- 2023. RNA Society Early-Career Award
- 2023. Outstanding Publication Award, Life Sciences, University of Patras, Greece
- 2022. Outstanding Publication Award, Life Sciences, University of Patras, Greece
- 2020. NIH DDIR (Deputy Director of Intramural Research)’s Challenge Award
- 2019. NIH DDIR's Challenge Award
- 2017. NIH DDIR Innovation Award
- 2016. Distinguished Scientist Award, NIH Chinese Students and Scholars Association
- 2014. NHLBI Director’s Award
- 2014. NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22)
- 2014. RNA Society/Scaringe Young Scientist Award
- 2014. Orloff Science Award, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- 2014. Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health
Journal Editing & Manuscript Reviews (2015 - present)
- Associate Editor:
- RNA Networks and Biology Section, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022-present
- Guest Editor:
- Special Issue — RNA Structure and Dynamics by Integrative Methods, 2021-2022,
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Special Issue — Nucleic Acids Crystallography, 2017, Crystals (MDPI)
- Editorial Board Membership:
- Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (Elsevier)
- Crystals (MDPI)
- Frontiers in Bioscience (BRI)
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences (Frontiers Media)
- Protein Expression and Purification (Elsevier)
Ad Hoc Reviewer (since 2015):
- Analytical Methods
- Methods
- ACS Omega
- Molecular Biology Reports
- ASM Press Book - Regulating with RNA
- Molecular Microbiology
- BMC Structural Biology
- Molecular Therapy
- Biochemistry
- Nature Chemical Biology
- Cell Chemical Biology
- Nature Communications
- Chemical Biology & Drug Design
- Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
- Crystals
- Nucleic Acids Research
- eLife
- PLOS ONE
- Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite
- Protein Expression and Purification
- Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark
- RNA
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Theranostics
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Viruses
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- Virus Research
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Science Translational Medicine
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- STAR Protocols
- Journal of Structural Biology
- WIREs RNA
- Life
Complete Bibliography:
ORCID ID # 0000-0002-2114-173X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2114-173X
NCBI:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/jinwei.zhang.2/bibliography/public/
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6_d0E5gAAAAJ
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