Yi Zhang | |
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Born | Zhang Yi Chongqing, China |
Education | B.Sc. and master's degree in biophysics from China Agricultural University Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from Florida State University |
Known for | Epigenetics Embryogenesis Somatic cell nuclear transfer Stem cell |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Academic advisors | Danny Reinberg |
Website | www |
Yi Zhang (Chinese: 张毅; pinyin: Zhāng Yì) is a Chinese-American biochemist who specializes in the fields of epigenetics, chromatin, and developmental reprogramming. He is a Fred Rosen Professor of Pediatrics and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School,[1] a senior investigator of Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital,[2] and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[3] He is also an associate member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute,[4] as well as the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.[5] He is best known for his discovery of several classes of epigenetic enzymes and the identification of epigenetic barriers of SCNT cloning.