Shuguang Zhang , PhD

Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences abroad since 2010

Contact:

shuguang(at)mit.edu

Orcid-ID:

0000-0002-3856-3752

Research Areas:

Profile:

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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.