Fangwei LENG
Date:2025-12-17
Majors for Enrollment: 
Neurobiology

Immunology 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 

 

B.S. in Biotechnology, Wu Yuzhang Honors College, Sichuan University, China
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

2025.5-Present
Assistant Investigator, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing, China
2023.9-2025.5
Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
2016.7-2023.9
Postdoc Researcher, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
 
The Leng Laboratory at CIMR investigates the molecular mechanisms by which FoxP3 regulates the gene network of regulatory T cells (Tregs), with the goal of developing drugs that target FoxP3 to modulate Treg activity, offering potential therapeutic strategies for autoimmune diseases and cancer.