Ping Zheng is a professor of Neurobiology at Fudan University and vice director of State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Fudan University. He was trained in Medicine at Baotou Medical College in 1978. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Medicine at Shanghai Medical University in 1991 and received his postdoctoral training at Yale University in 1996. Over the past years, Dr. Zheng has been a peer reviewer for a number of journals, including European Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Bulletin, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica and others. The research interests of Dr. Zheng are in the field of modulation of synaptic transmission and ionic channels with recently focusing on modulation of presynaptic glutamate release by neurosteroids in different brain regions. Dr. Zheng’s research is supported by a number of research grants, including ones from Shuguang Research Program of Shanghai Education Committee, National Natural Science and Foundation of China, Trans－Century Training Program Foundation for the Talents by the State Education Commission and Shanghai Science and Technology Committee. Dr. Zheng has published more than 20 papers in academic journals.  

Selected Publications:

1.          Yi Dong, Ying-Mei Fu, Jian-Li Sun, Yan-Hua Zhu, Feng-Yan Sund and Ping Zheng  (corresponding author). Neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate enhances spontaneous glutamate release in rat prelimbic cortical neurons via activation of alpha1-adrenergic and metabotropic sigma 1- like receptors. Cellular and Molecular Life Science, 2005, 62:1003-1014.

2.          Jian-Li Sun, Yan-Lian Dong, Ying-Mei Fu, Yan-Hua Zhu, Yi Dong and Ping Zheng  (corresponding author). Neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate inhibits stimulus-evoked EPSC via presynaptic inhibition of protein kinase A in rat prelimbic cortical neurons. Neuropharmacology. 2005, 49:389-99.

3.          Xue-Quan Feng, Yi Dong, Ying-Mei Fu, Yan-Hua Zhu, Jian-Li Sun, Zhi Wang, Feng-Yan Sun, Ping Zheng  (corresponding author). Progesterone inhibition of dopamine-induced increase in frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents in rat prelimbic cortical neurons. Neuropharmacology. 2004, 46: 211-222.

4.          Wang Z, Feng XQ, Ping Zheng  (corresponding author). Activation of presynaptic D1 dopamine receptors by dopamine increases the frequency of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents through protein kinase A and protein kinase C in pyramidal cells of rat prelimbic cortex. Neuroscience. 2002, 112: 499-508.

5.          Bin Lai, Li Zhang, Yan-Lian Dong, Yan-Hua Zhu, Feng-Yan Sun and Ping Zheng (corresponding author). Inhibition of Qi site of mitochondrial complex III with antimycin A decreases persistent and transient sodium currents via reactive oxygen species in rat hippocampal CA1 cells. Experimental Neurology. 2005, 194: 484-94.

6.          Bin Lai, Li Zhang, Yan-Lian Dong, Yan-Hua Zhu, Feng-Yan Sun and Ping Zheng (corresponding author). Impact of inhibition of Q(o) site of mitochondrial complex III with myxothiazol on persistent sodium currents via superoxide and protein kinase C in rat hippocampal CA1 cells. Neurobiology of Disease. 2006, 21: 206-216.