Shengjie Feng, PhD - Sanford Burnham Prebys

Shengjie Feng is an expert in how to leverage the powers of cryo-EM. “My research is truly interdisciplinary,” she says. “I believe that the strong cryo-EM core facility, drug discovery, cancer research and neuroscience research at Sanford Burnham Prebys will play a crucial role in advancing my work.

Previously, Feng was a postdoctoral scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UC San Francisco, where she worked with biophysicist Yifan Cheng, MD and neuroscientist Lily Jan, PhD

Feng earned her PhD in neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroscience, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she used mouse models to understand the mechanisms and functions of membrane proteins and ion channels during neural development and disease.