Shuguang Zhang
| PhDCorresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences abroad since 2010
- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Media Laboratory
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-3856-3752
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Molecular biology
- Proteindesign
- Membranproteindesign
Profile:
Selected Memberships:
- American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
- US National Academy of Inventors
- European Academy of Science and Arts
- Protein Society
- Erwin Schrodinger Society
Selected Prizes:
- R&D 100 award
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
- 2020 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award from the Protein Society
- Wilhelm Exner Medaille des Österreichischen Gewerbevereins
Selected Publications:
- Smorodina, E., Tao, F., Qing, R., Jin, D., Yang, S. & Shuguang Zhang (2022) Comparing 2 crystal structures and 12 AlphaFold2 predicted human membrane glucose transporters and their water-soluble QTY variants. QRB Discovery 3, e5, 1-11.
- Zhang, S. & Egli, M. (2022) The secret life of the alpha-helix. Quarterly Review of Biophysics (QRB) 55. 55EB6C1845791F987565FC5BE93715C4.
- Qing, R., Han, Q., Fei, T., Skuhersky, M., Badr, M., Chung, H., Schubert, T., & Zhang, S. (2019) QTY code designed thermostable and water-soluble chimeric chemokine receptors with tunable ligand-binding activities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116 (51) 25668-25676.
- Zhang, S., Tao, F., Qing, R., Tang, H., Skuhersky, M., Corin, K., Tegler, L., Wassie, A., Wassie, B., Kwon, Y., Suter, B., Schubert, T., Yang, G., Labahn, J., Kubicek J., & Maertens, B. (2018) QTY code enables design of detergent-free chemokine receptors that retain ligand-binding activities. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115 (37) E8652-E8659.
- Zhang, S. (2003) Fabrication of novel materials through molecular self-assembly. Nature Biotechnology 21, 1171-1178.