Qingfei Zheng

Qingfei Zheng's lab studies chemical modifications on histones and other proteins—for example how molecules like serotonin, histamine, or norepinephrine attach to proteins—and how these modifications affect gene regulation, cell behavior, and diseases such as cancer. The group develops new chemical and proteomic tools (bioconjugation reactions, protein ligation methods, chemical labeling techniques) to detect and study these protein modifications, and applies them to questions in epigenetics (heritable changes in gene activity not involving DNA sequence changes) and cancer biology.

Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from a handful of papers per year in 2017-2021 to a sustained pace of about 10-11 papers per year from 2022 through 2026.

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