Huiping Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Huiping Zhang
617.358.3689
72 East Concord Street

Biography

Huiping Zhang, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He has a long history with the Yale University School of Medicine, where he completed his postdoc training and then served as a Research Associate Scientist (equivalent to Research Assistant Professor), Assistant Professor (tenure-track), and Research Scientist (equivalent to Research Associate Professor) before coming to Boston University. He is an editorial board member of academic journals such as the Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy, the Journal of Depression & Anxiety, and PLOS One. His research focused on genetic and epigenetic studies of substance use disorders (SUDs) and related psychiatric disorders and traits. He is currently the PI of two research grants (R01 and R21) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and one research grant from the Boston University Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Additionally, he is the subcontract PI of a R01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Biomedical Genetics, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Member, Genome Science Institute, Boston University
  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

Education

  • Queen's University, PhD
  • Tongji Medical University, MS
  • Central China Normal University, BS

Publications

  • Published on 1/18/2024

    Cai Y, Zhu ZH, Qi Q, Yin XY, Jia NN, Hou WL, Chen P, Man LJ, Wang PJ, Qian S, Wang WX, Zhang TH, Wang JJ, Zhang H, Hui L. The negative association of serum complement 3 and 4 levels with visuospatial/constructional function in first-episode patients with schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2024 Feb; 264:404-406. PMID: 38237363.

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  • Published on 12/20/2023

    Liu Y, Koo JS, Zhang H. Chronic intermittent ethanol exposure-induced m6A modifications around mRNA stop codons of opioid receptor genes. Epigenetics. 2024 Dec; 19(1):2294515. PMID: 38118075.

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  • Published on 9/27/2023

    Borrelli KN, Wingfield KK, Yao EJ, Zamorano CA, Sena KD, Beierle JA, Roos MA, Zhang H, Wachman EM, Bryant CD. Decreased myelin-related gene expression in the nucleus accumbens during spontaneous neonatal opioid withdrawal in the absence of long-term behavioral effects in adult outbred CFW mice. Neuropharmacology. 2023 Dec 01; 240:109732. PMID: 37774943.

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  • Published on 5/5/2023

    Kumaresan V, Lim Y, Juneja P, Tipton AE, de Guglielmo G, Carrette LLG, Kallupi M, Maturin L, Liu Y, George O, Zhang H. Abstinence from Escalation of Cocaine Intake Changes the microRNA Landscape in the Cortico-Accumbal Pathway. Biomedicines. 2023 May 05; 11(5). PMID: 37239038.

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  • Published on 2/23/2023

    Cai Y, Zhu ZH, Li RH, Yin XY, Chen RF, Man LJ, Hou WL, Zhu HL, Wang J, Zhang H, Jia QF, Hui L. Association between increased serum interleukin-8 levels and improved cognition in major depressive patients with SSRIs. BMC Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 23; 23(1):122. PMID: 36823619.

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  • Published on 8/9/2022

    Chen RF, Cai Y, Zhu ZH, Hou WL, Chen P, Wang J, Jia YM, Zhu ZB, Zhang YH, Tao LY, Wu JW, Zhang J, Zhang H, Wang ZX, Jia QF, Hui L. Sleep disorder as a clinical risk factor of major depression: associated with cognitive impairment. Asian J Psychiatr. 2022 Oct; 76:103228. PMID: 35973338.

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  • Published on 5/27/2022

    Liu Y, Zhang H. RNA m6A Modification Changes in Postmortem Nucleus Accumbens of Subjects with Alcohol Use Disorder: A Pilot Study. Genes (Basel). 2022 May 27; 13(6). PMID: 35741720.

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  • Published on 5/17/2022

    Borrelli KN, Wachman EM, Beierle JA, Taglauer ES, Jain M, Bryant CD, Zhang H. Effect of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Human Placental Methylome. Biomedicines. 2022 May 17; 10(5). PMID: 35625888.

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  • Published on 10/2/2021

    Lim Y, Beane-Ebel JE, Tanaka Y, Ning B, Husted CR, Henderson DC, Xiang Y, Park IH, Farrer LA, Zhang H. Exploration of alcohol use disorder-associated brain miRNA-mRNA regulatory networks. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 10 02; 11(1):504. PMID: 34601489.

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  • Published on 11/17/2020

    Moazzam M, Yim T, Kumaresan V, Henderson DC, Farrer LA, Zhang H. Analysis of telomere length variation and Shelterin complex subunit gene expression changes in ethanol-exposed human embryonic stem cells. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 11; 143:543-549. PMID: 33243459.

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