Feng Zhang is a McGovern Investigator, the James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a professor in MIT’s Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and of Biological Engineering. He is also a core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
\He joined MIT and the Broad Institute in 2011, was awarded tenure in 2016, and became a full professor in 2018. Feng Zhang grew up in Iowa after moving there with his parents from China at age 11. He received his AB in chemistry and physics from Harvard College and his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University.
Zhang is a founder of Sherlock Biosciences and the public companies Arbor Biotechnologies, Editas Medicine, and BEAM Therapeutics. He is also a trustee of the non-profit organizations Society for Science & the Public, Center for Excellence in Education and the Museum of Science.
