Morgan Sheng
Taiwanese neurobiologist
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Sheng received a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard University.
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His postdoc was performed at the University of California, San Francisco. Following that, Sheng was an assistant professor and associate professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, professor of neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and vice president of neuroscience at Genentech. His research has focused on pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and molecular cellular biology of synapses and synaptic plasticity.
Honors and awards
- 2023: Member, National Academy of Medicine
- 2020: Julius Axelrod Prize, Society for Neuroscience
- 2010: Honorary fellow, University of Oxford Corpus Christi College
- 2009: Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences
- 2007: Fellow, Royal Society
- 2006: Neuronal Plasticity Prize, Fondation IPSEN
- 2005: Outstanding Achievement Award, Neuroscience Division, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America
- 2004: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1999: Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience
- 1995: Member, Society for Neuroscience
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