Overview
Prof. Linfeng Huang received his Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University in Beijing in 2003. After graduation, he did a short academic visit at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Oxford and then studied his PhD with Prof. Sir David Baulcombe at the Sainsbury Laboratory, the John Innes Centre in the UK. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of East Anglia in 2009. Between 2009 and 2014, he did his postdoctoral training with Prof. Judy Lieberman at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the USA. Since Aug 2014, he was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. Prof. Huang joined Duke Kunshan University as an Associate Professor of Biology in Sep 2020.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University
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2020 - Present
DKU Faculty
Recent Publications
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Nat Commun
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April 7, 2026
The NAD+ cap has been discovered in RNAs across prokaryotes and eukaryotes, suggesting a possible role of NAD capping in gene regulation. Current NAD-capped RNA (NAD-RNA) profiling methods lack precision in 5'-end mapping or bias against small NAD-RNAs. He ...
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Nature communications
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November 2024
The use of combinatorial siRNAs shows great promise for drug discovery, but the identification of safe and effective siRNA combinations remains challenging. Here, we develop a massively multiplexed technology for systematic screening of siRNA-based cocktai ...
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Cell insight
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August 2024
Cell fate determination is an intricate process which is orchestrated by multiple regulatory layers including signal pathways, transcriptional factors, epigenetic modifications, and metabolic rewiring. Among the sophisticated epigenetic modulations, the re ...
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Education
University of East Anglia (United Kingdom) ·
2009
Ph.D.