Biography

Dr. Guo is a Principal Investigator at the Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Xuzhou Medical University. She also serves as an Executive Committee member of the Immunology and Metabolism Professional Committee of the Jiangsu Immunology Society and has been distinguished as a Jiangsu Specially Appointed Professor.

Dr. Guo earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Tsinghua University and Peking Union Medical College. She subsequently pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the United States, where she later advanced to the position of Research Scientist. Dr. Guo’s contributions have been disseminated through original research articles published in reputable journals, including the eBiomedicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, among others. To date, she has authored over 30 research papers, which collectively have garnered more than 10,000 citations.

Publications

Representative publications: 

1.Feng Guo*, Li Zhang*, Yuzhen Yu, Lu Gong, Shiyue Tao, Rhiannon B. Werder, Shreya Mishra, Yihan Zhou, Wardatul Jannat Anamika, Taotao Lao, Hiroyuki Inuzuka, Yihan Zhang, Betty Pham, Tao Liu, Tiffany S. Tufenkjian, BradleyW. Richmond, Wenyi Wei, Hongmei Mou, Andrew A. Wilson, Ming Hu, Wei Chen, and Xiaobo Zhou#. Identification of a distal enhancer regulating hedgehog interacting protein gene in human lung epithelial cells. eBioMedicine. 2024 Mar; VOLUME 101, 105026.

2.Feng Guo*, Yuan Hao*, Li Zhang, Damien C. Croteau-Chonka, Derek Thibault, Parul Kothari, Lijia Li, Bruce D. Levy, Xiaobo Zhou, and Benjamin A. Raby. Asthma Susceptibility Gene ORMDL3 Promotes Autophagy in Human Bronchial Epithelium. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Jun;66(6):661-670. 

3.Peter Castaldi*, Feng Guo*, Dandi Qiao*, Fei Du, Zun Zar Chi Naing, Yan Li, Betty Pham, Tarjei Mikkelsen, Michael H. Cho, Edwin K. Silverman, Xiaobo Zhou. Identification of Functional Variants in the FAM13A Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Locus by Massively Parallel Reporter Assays. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. 2019 Jan 1;199(1):52-61.

4.Weiliang Qiu*, Feng Guo*, Kimberly Glass, Guo Cheng Yuan, John Quackenbush, Xiaobo Zhou, Kelan Tantisira. Differential Connectivity of Gene Regulatory Networks Distinguishes Corticosteroid Response in Asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2018 Apr;141(4):1250-1258.

5.Yang Sun*, Feng Guo*, Zhen Zou*, Chenggang Li*, Xiaoxu Hong*, Yan Zhao*, Chenxuan Wang, Hongliang Wang, Haolin Liu, Peng Yang, Zongsheng Han, Kangtai Liu, Keiji Kuba, Bin Song, Jinming Gao, Ziyao Mo, Dangsheng Li, Bo Li, Qihan Li, Nanshan Zhong, Chen Wang, Josef M Penninger and Chengyu Jiang. Cationic nanoparticles bind angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 directly and induce mice acute lung injury. Particle and Fibre Toxicology. 2015 Mar 7;12:4.