GUOPING FAN, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Human Genetics

Guoping Fan is a molecular geneticist and neuroscientist who joined the UCLA Department of Human Genetics as an Assistant Professor in 2001. Dr. Fan earned his B.S. in Biochemistry at Nanjing University, China in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University in 1995. Before joining UCLA, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, where he studied the role of DNA methylation and neurotrophins in the development of the mammalian nervous system. His current research at UCLA focuses on addressing molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural development and stem cell differentiation. Fan’s laboratory uses human and mouse embryonic stem cells to study neuronal differentiation. His research team recently demonstrated that DNA cytosine methylation plays a major regulatory role in controlling the timing of neural stem cell differentiation into neurons and glial cells.

Read more about Guoping Fan:

• Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Biography
• David Geffen School of Medicine
• UCLA Brain Research Institute
• UCLA Neuroscience Program
• UCLA Access
• UCLA Crump Institute