Jubao
Duan
,
PhD
Director, Unit of Functional Genomics in Psychiatry
Center for Psychiatric Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Contact Information
224.364.7564
224.364.7570
Fax
mailto:jduan@uchicago.edu
Education
- Undergraduate: B.S., Department of Biochemistry; Shandong University; Jinan, China
- Graduate: Ph.D., Molecular Genetics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Research and Academic Interests
Molecular basis of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders; Functional genetics and genomics; Disease modeling by human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC)-derived neurons; Genome editing; Gene expression and regulation.
Honors and Awards
- 2016 Special Presidents’ Award, NorthShore University Healthsystem
- 2015 Excellence in Research Award, Northshore University Healthsystem
- 2011 NorthShore University HealthSystem Pilot Grant Award
- 2006 NARSAD (National Alliance for Research of Schizophrenia and Depression) Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Investigator
- 2005 NARSAD (National Alliance for Research of Schizophrenia and Depression) Young Investigator Award, USA
- 2004 Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Career Development Award
- 2001 NARSAD (National Alliance for Research of Schizophrenia and Depression) Young Investigator Award, USA
Professional Memberships/Affiliations/Activities
- American Society of Human Genetics
- Society of Psychiatric Genetics
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Ad hoc grant reviewer for MRC (Medical Research Council) of UK, Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and other international agencies
- Ad hoc member of NIH study sections IFCN-Z(57) and BDCN-W(06)M: 2017
- NIH study section MDCN-P (57): 2016, 2017, 2018
Scholarly Work