Bio
Deputy Director, Basic Science and Translational Research, NNI Principal Investigator, Neural Stem Cells Research Lab, NNI
Associate Professor, Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School
She earned her BSc in Biology from Beijing Normal University and completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow. Subsequently, she undertook postdoctoral training in the Signal Transduction group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), National University of Singapore (NUS), before joining the Developmental Biology group at IMCB, A*STAR as a Research Scientist. During this tenure, she investigated TAG1-APP signaling in regulating neurogenesis and its relevance to Alzheimer’s disease. Since 2009, Dr. Zeng has led her research team at NNI.
Research focuses on using the pre-clinical mouse model of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and 2D iPSCs and 3D brain organoid-derived from neurological diseases patients to pinpoint the cause of neurodegeneration and identify new therapeutic interventions
• Recipient of multiple research grants from National Medical Research Council (NMRC) and Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), for basic translational research
• Senior author in multiple high impact journals (Nature Communication, Biomaterials, Science Signalling, eLife, etc) on deciphering molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Sci with Hons Biochemistry
Beijing Normal University, China