Feng Guo
202 Boyer Hall
611 Charles E. Young Dr. E
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Biography
Dr. Guo is a structural biologist and biochemist who joined the UCLA School of Medicine faculty in July 2004. He earned his B.S. in Biophysics at the Nankai University and M.S. in Physical Chemistry at the Peking University, both in China. Dr. Guo received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. In graduate school, he studied the Cre-loxP site-specific DNA recombination using X-ray crystallography. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Thomas Cech at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked on the thermostability and crystal structure of large ribozymes.
Awards & Honors
Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation
2013 Oppenheimer Endowment Award