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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
Member, USC Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences

Contact at: (323) 442-1441 or jcshih@hsc.usc.edu


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:
    President of Society for Chinese American Neuroscientists (1994-96) Co-founder of Cocensys, a biotechnology company to develop therapeutic agents for disorders of the central nervous system Shih and her collaborators are the first to have modeled the three-dimensional structure of the brain enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO) Two-time recipient of NIH Merit Award

Foreign Languages:
Chinese

More:
For biographical information go to:

http://www.usc.edu/hsc/pharmacy/mptx/shih.html