Peying Fong

Peying Fong's research interests focus on understanding the structure and function of proteins that facilitate salt, solute, and water movement across intracellular and plasma membranes. Transport processes enable by these channel and transporter proteins underpin functions critical to all systems within the body. This is underscored by the plethora of diseases that arise when these fundamental processes do not function properly. After a liberal arts education at Yale College, Dr. Fong worked at the Yale University School of Medicine, an environment that inspired her to pursue graduate studies in physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Subsequently, postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by a Human Frontiers Long Term Fellowship at the Center of Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany, equipped her to establish her research program. Like many researchers, Dr. Fong is invested in didactic instruction and mentorship of graduate and professional students. She contributes to the advancing the discipline of physiology through service on the editorial board of The Journal of Physiology. Dr. Fong also contributes actively to peer review of manuscripts for several additional select journals, as well as grant proposals from a number of national and international institutions.