Z. Josh Huang
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| Born | Zuoshi Josh Huang |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Duke University School of Medicine |
Zuoshi Josh Huang (Chinese: 黄佐实) is a Chinese-American neuroscientist known for his contributions to the genetic dissection of neural circuitry in the cerebral cortex through systematic mapping of its cellular components.[1] He is Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Duke University School of Medicine. Huang is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Early life and education
Huang received a B.S. in biology from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1985.[2] He completed an M.S. in zoology at Arizona State University in 1989. He then earned a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from Brandeis University in 1995, working in the laboratory of Michael Rosbash, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of the circadian clock in fruit flies.[3]
From 1995 to 1999, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity and critical periods in the visual cortex.[2]
Career
Huang joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in 2000 as an assistant professor. He became associate professor in 2004 and was appointed the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Neuroscience in 2010.[4] In 2020, he joined Duke University as Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, and in 2022 he was named Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience.[5]
Awards and honors
- Pew Scholar Award (2002)[6]
- McKnight Scholar Award in Neuroscience, McKnight Foundation (2004–2007)[7]
- Simons Investigator, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (2007–2017)[8]
- Distinguished Investigator Award, NARSAD (2011)[9]
- Special Lecture, Society for Neuroscience (2015)[10]
- National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award (2021)[11]
- Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)[12]
References
- ^ Taniguchi, Hiroki; He, Miao; Wu, Priscilla; Kim, Sangyong; Paik, Raehum; Sugino, Ken; Kvitsiani, Duda; Fu, Yu; Lu, Jiangteng; Lin, Ying; Miyoshi, Goichi; Shima, Yasuyuki; Fishell, Gord; Nelson, Sacha B.; Huang, Z. Josh (22 September 2011). "A resource of Cre driver lines for genetic targeting of GABAergic neurons in cerebral cortex". Neuron. 71 (6): 995–1013. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.026. ISSN 1097-4199. PMC 3779648.
- ^ a b "SFARI Investigators elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and National Academy of Sciences in 2022". SFARI. 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Josh Huang | Duke Neurobiology". Duke.edu.
- ^ "Z. Josh Huang" (PDF). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- ^ "Josh Huang". Duke Biomedical Engineering.
- ^ "Z. Josh Huang, Ph.D." PEW.org.
- ^ "Awardees". McKnight Foundation.
- ^ "Z. Josh Huang". SFARI. 21 July 2017.
- ^ "Leading Scientists Awarded $1.5 Million in NARSAD Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation". Bbrfoundation. 9 August 2011.
- ^ "Special Lectures". SFN.
- ^ "2021 NIH Director's Pioneer Award (DP1)". NIH.
- ^ "Z. Josh Huang". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 30 October 2025.