BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Zhigang He PhD, B.M.
F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
Boston Children’s Hospital
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston (MA), USA

Zhigang He is Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology of Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. With the objective of developing novel CNS neural repair strategies, his group studies axon regeneration, neural modulation and related circuit mechanisms. He was a recipient of the Reeve-Irvine Research Medal in 2019 and a Visionary Award of the Greenberg END Blindness in 2020. He has the honor of being named a Klingenstein Fellow in Neuroscience, a John Merck Scholar, a McKnight Scholar and the EJLB fellow, and a member of National Academy of Medicine of US.