NAME: Zheng-Yi Chen, D.Phil. 
 
MGH Appointment: Assistant Geneticist 
 
HMS Appointment: Assistant Professor 
 
MGH Address: Wellman 425 
 
MGH Phone Number: 617-724-1679 
 
Patient Office Phone Number: 
 
Patient Office Location: 
 
E-Mail Address: zhengyi@helix.mgh.harvard.edu 
 
FAX Number: 617-724-7160 
 
Undergraduate Education: Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 
 
Graduate and/or Medical School: Oxford University, England 
 
Residencies and Fellowships: 
 
Foreign Language Spoken: Chinese 
 
Certification by an American Specialty Board: 
 
Primary Specialty: Hair Cell Regeneration 
 
Other Specialties: Mechanism of Hearing Loss 
 
Research Interests: Functional Genomics of Hearing. Genetics, Genomics and Molecular 
Basis of Inner Ear Development and Function 
 
Clinical Interests: 
 
Representative Publications: 
 
1). Chen ZY, Hendriks RW, Jobling MA, Powell JF, Breakefield XO, Sims KB, Craig IW. 
Isolation and characterisation of a candidate gene for Norrie disease.  
Nature Genet . 1992; 1:204-208. 
 
2). Rehm HL, Zhang DS, Brown MM, Burgess B, Halpin C, Berge W, Morton CC, Corey DP,  Chen ZY .  
Vascular defects and sensorineural deafness in a mouse model of Norrie disease. 
J Neurosci.  2002, 22: 4286-4292 
 
3). Liu XZ, Zheng J, Ouyan XM, Xia XJ, Li F, Du LL, Corey DP, Pandya A, Petit C, 
Smith RJH, Dallos P, Balkany T, Nancy WE, Chen ZY .  (2003) 
Prestin, a cochlear motor protein,is defective in non-syndromic recessive deafness . 
Hum Mol Genet .2003, 15; 12(10):1155-1162

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