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Shuguang Zhang

Shuguang Zhang is at the Center for Biomedical Engineering and Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Sichuan University in China and Ph.D. in biochemistry & molecular biology from University of California at Santa Barbara.  He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and was a Whitaker Foundation Investigator.  He is member of AAAS, American Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, the Protein Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi.  He received an honorary professorship from Sichuan University. He is also an elected Chang Jiang distinguished scholar in China. He is a 2003 Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS fellow).  His work of designer peptide scaffold won 2004 R&D100 award.  His and his colleagues’ work of direct harvesting biosolar energy was selected to be the Top 100 Science Stories in 2004 by Discover Magazine and one of the 10 finalists of the 2005 Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas.  He is one of the 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Fellows.  He is the recipient of the 2006 Wilhelm Exner Medal of Austria.