
Chengguo Wei, PhD
About Me
Chengguo Wei, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and researcher in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology. His study interesting is focusing on using microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies and bioinformatics to exploring the mechanisms of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and kidney fibrosis.
Dr. Wei received his PhD from Jilin University in China. He did a Nephrology postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals .
Language
English
Position
ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Medicine, Nephrology
Education
PhD, Jilin University
PostDoc, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications
Selected Publications
- Design of precision therapeutics for a CKD risk allele by targeting Shroom3-Rock interaction. Anand Reghuvaran, Ashwani Kumar, Qisheng Lin, Nallakandi Rajeevan, Khadija Banu, Zeguo Sun, Hongmei Shi, Gabriel Barsotti, E. M. Tanvir, John Pell, Sudhir Perincheri, Chengguo Wei, Bhavya Bharathan, Marina Planoutene, Anne Eichmann, Valeria Mas, Weijia Zhang, Lloyd G. Cantley, Leyuan Xu, Bhaskar Das, John Cijiang He, Madhav C. Menon. Nature Communications
- Author Correction: LILRB3 genetic variation is associated with kidney transplant failure in African American recipients (Nature Medicine, (2025), 31, 5, (1677-1687), 10.1038/s41591-025-03568-z). Zeguo Sun, Zhengzi Yi, Chengguo Wei, Wenlin Wang, Tianyuan Ren, Paolo Cravedi, Fasika Tedla, Stephen C. Ward, Evren Azeloglu, Daniel R. Schrider, Yun Li, Atlas Khan, Francesca Zanoni, Jia Fu, Sumaria Ali, Shun Liu, Deguang Liang, Tong Liu, Hong Li, Caixia Xi, Thi Ha Vy, Gohar Mosoyan, Quan Sun, Ashwani Kumar, Zhongyang Zhang, Samira Farouk, Kirk Campell, Jordi Ochando, Kyung Lee, Steve Coca, Jenny Xiang, Patricia Connolly, Lorenzo Gallon, Philip J. O’Connell, Robert Colvin, Madhav C. Menon, Girish Nadkarni, John C. He, Monica Kraft, Xuejun Jiang, Xuewu Zhang, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Aravind Cherukuri, Fadi G. Lakkis, Weiguo Zhang, Shu Hsia Chen, Peter S. Heeger, Weijia Zhang. Nature Medicine
- LILRB3 genetic variation is associated with kidney transplant failure in African American recipients. Zeguo Sun, Zhengzi Yi, Chengguo Wei, Wenlin Wang, Tianyuan Ren, Paolo Cravedi, Fasika Tedla, Stephen C. Ward, Evren Azeloglu, Daniel R. Schrider, Yun Li, Atlas Khan, Francesca Zanoni, Jia Fu, Sumaria Ali, Shun Liu, Deguang Liang, Tong Liu, Hong Li, Caixia Xi, Thi Ha Vy, Gohar Mosoyan, Quan Sun, Ashwani Kumar, Zhongyang Zhang, Samira Farouk, Kirk Campell, Jordi Ochando, Kyung Lee, Steve Coca, Jenny Xiang, Patricia Connolly, Lorenzo Gallon, Philip J. O’Connell, Robert Colvin, Madhav C. Menon, Girish Nadkarni, John C. He, Monica Kraft, Xuejun Jiang, Xuewu Zhang, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Aravind Cherukuri, Fadi G. Lakkis, Weiguo Zhang, Shu Hsia Chen, Peter S. Heeger, Weijia Zhang. Nature Medicine
Industry Relationships
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Dr. Wei has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
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