Zeng Rong

Zeng Rong () is a Chinese biochemist researching and developing technology for proteomics research. She is currently a professor at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences.
Education.
Zeng graduated from the Biology department at Hunan Normal University in China in 1995, with a Bachelor's degree. She then got her doctoral degree in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2000, at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was mentored by a famous protein analyst Xia Qichang.
Career.
Zeng has been working at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology where she got her doctoral degree since 2000 after her graduation. She works as a doctoral supervisor, and she is also the principal investigator of her research group. She was offered to be an editor of the magazine "Proteomics" in January 2005, and "Molecular and Cell Proteomics" in 2006. Zeng was also accepted as a committee member of HUPO in September 2009.
She has received honors and awards including the National Science Fund in 2004 and the Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship Award in 2005.
Research focus.
Zeng's main focus is on proteomics and the dynamic behavior of proteins. She leads a research team at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences to make progress in methodology development, application of quantitative proteomics, and regulation mechanism of protein dynamic behavior.
Her team developed novel methods for proteomics research including multi-dimensional LC-MS/MS that can aid protein profiling, phosphopeptide enrichment, and multiplex quantitation. They applied quantitative proteomics in cell signaling and biomarker discovery of diabetes. Their work on proteins in and around cancer cells in human liver achieved better understanding of liver cancer. In order to regulate the mechanisms involved in the dynamic behavior of proteins, Zeng and her team utilized epigenetic, transcriptomic, and MiRNA data along with proteomic data to find out how biological molecules interact on a systematic level.
Contributions to science.
Zeng has published multiple papers in journals including but not limited to "Electrophoresis", "Nature", "Science", "Proteomics", "BMC Genomics", "Journal of Proteome Research," the "Journal of Molecular Cell Biology", and "Molecular & Cellular Proteomics". Some selected work listed below: