Jean Chen Shih
USC University Professor
Holder of the Boyd P. and Elsie D. Welin Professorship in Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology
Professor of cell and neurobiology
Professor, USC School of Pharmacy
Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences
Expertise
- stress and its effects on brain chemistry
- molecular pharmacology and toxicology
- biochemistry and neurochemistry
- biochemical processes and aging
- molecular and biochemical bases of
depression, memory, sleep, aggression,
appetite and sexual behavior - neurobiology
- enzyme regulation
- gene expression
- molecular biology
- pharmacogenetics – study of how
genetic diversity afffects the efficacy
and side effects of drugs - serotonin receptors
- monoamine oxidase (MAO)
- genes and behavior
- gene knock-out mice
Additional Information
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- President of Society for Chinese American Neuroscientists (1994-96)
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- Co-founder of Cocensys, a biotechnology company to develop therapeutic
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- agents for disorders of the central nervous system
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- Shih and her collaborators are the first to have modeled the three-dimensional
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- structure of the brain enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO)
- Two-time recipient of NIH Merit Award
Languages
- Chinese
