About Xiongyi

Xiongyi Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Johns Hopkins University

Contact Information
155 Remsen Hall
Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Xiongyi grew up in Guilin – a small and quiet city in China known for its karst landscape. He received his B.S. Degree in Chemistry in 2010 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he worked on computational organic chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Yao Fu and Prof. Jing Shi. He then came to the United States and completed his graduate studies with Prof. John T. Groves at Princeton University as an HHMI International Predoctoral Fellow. During his PhD, Xiongyi has developed a series of Mn-catalyzed biomimetic C–H functionalization methods and collaborated with scientists at Merck and Mass General Hospital to develop new radiolabeling chemistry for applications in positron emission tomography (PET). After receiving his PhD in 2016, Xiongyi worked with Prof. Frances Arnold at Caltech, first as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow and later as an NIH Pathway to Independence Postdoctoral Fellow. In the Arnold group, Xiongyi used directed evolution to engineer enzymes to catalyze reactions not previously present in biology. Xiongyi began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University in September 2019.

Awards

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2024)

Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award (2023)

Johns Hopkins Discovery Award (2022)

Packard Fellow (2021)

NIH Pathway to Independence Award K99/R00 (2018)

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017)

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad (2016)

HHMI International Student Research Fellowship (2013 – 2015)