Dr. Guoping Feng is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Guoping is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As a world-renowned brain scientist, Guoping is committed to studying brain synapses, neural circuit functions, and the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. His research on autism spectrum disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has extensively promoted human understanding of psychiatric illness and helped discover molecular targets for the new drug development.
Guoping serves as a scientific consultant for a number of government scientific research institutions and scientific research foundations, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and John Merck Foundation. He has won numerous awards, such as the McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award, the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, and many scientific innovation awards from the Brain Research Foundations.