Morgan Sheng Explained

Honorific Prefix:	PhD
Birth Date:	23 February 1958
Birth Place:	Taipei, Taiwan
Fields:	Synaptic plasticity, neurodegeneration, therapeutics, psychiatric disorders
Workplaces:	Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Genentech, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Education:	PhD in molecular genetics
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Doctoral Advisor:	Michael E. Greenberg
Notable Students:	Casper Hoogenraad
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Website:	Sheng Lab

Morgan Hwa-Tze Sheng is a professor of neurobiology and a Core Institute Member at the Broad Institute, where he is a co-director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.^[1] He is a professor of neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences as well as the Menicon Professor of Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2] He is also an associate member at both The Picower Institute for Learning and McGovern Institute for Brain Research.^[3] He has served on the editorial boards of Current Opinions in Neurobiology, Neuron, and The Journal of Neuroscience.^[4]

Education

Sheng received a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard University.

Career

His postdoc was performed at the University of California, San Francisco.^[5] 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,^[6] professor of neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and vice president of neuroscience at Genentech.^{[7] [8] [9]} His research has focused on pathogenic mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and molecular cellular biology of synapses and synaptic plasticity.^[10]

Honors and awards

• 2023: Member, National Academy of Medicine^{[11] [12]}
• 2020: Julius Axelrod Prize, Society for Neuroscience^{[13] [14]}
• 2010: Honorary fellow, University of Oxford Corpus Christi College
• 2009: Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences^[15]
• 2007: Fellow, Royal Society^[16]
• 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

Selected publications

• Sheng . Morgan . Greenberg . Michael E. . Michael E. Greenberg . 1 April 1990 . The regulation and function of c-fos and other immediate early genes in the nervous system . . . 4 . 4. 477–485 . 10.1016/0896-6273(90)90106-P . 1969743 . 1 November 2023.
• Eunjoon Kim . Kim . Eunjoon . Sheng . Morgan . 1 October 2004 . PDZ domain proteins of synapses . . 5 . 10 . 771–781 . 10.1038/nrn1517 . 15378037 . 1 November 2023.
• Sheng . Morgan . Thompson . Margaret A. . Greenberg . Michael E. . Michael E. Greenberg . 7 June 1991 . CREB: a Ca2+-Regulated Transcription Factor Phosphorylated by Calmodulin-Dependent Kinases . . 252 . 5011 . 1427–1430 . 10.1126/science.1646483 . 1646483 . 1 November 2023.
• Morgan . Sheng. Cummings. Jennifer . Roldan . Leslie Ann . Jan. Yuh Nung . Yuh Nung Jan . Lily Jan. Jan . Lily Yeh . 10 March 1994 . Changing subunit composition of heteromeric NMDA receptors during development of rat cortex . . 368. 6467. 144–147 . . 10.1038/368144a0 . 8139656. 1 November 2023.
• Li . Zheng . Okamoto. Ken-Ichi . Yasunori Hayashi . Hayashi . Yasunori . Sheng. Morgan . 17 December 2004 . The importance of dendritic mitochondria in the morphogenesis and plasticity of spines and synapses . . 119 . 6 . 873–887 . . 10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.003 . free . 15607982 .

See also

• Paul Blainey
• Feng Zhang
• Eunjoon Kim
• Steven Hyman

External links

• A Mind for the Brain, Genentech
• UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility Advisory Board

Notes and References

1. Web site: Morgan Sheng, M.D., Ph.D. . . 2 May 2019. . 1 November 2023 .
2. Morgan Sheng . . 2009 . . 8 . 10 . 766 . 10.1038/nrd3014 . 19794439 . 1 November 2023 .
3. Web site: About . . . 1 November 2023 .
4. Web site: Strategic & Scientific Advisors . . Cure Shark . 1 November 2023 .
5. Web site: Co-Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard . . Vanqua Bio . 1 November 2023 .
6. Web site: Morgan Sheng . . 27 June 2018 . . 1 November 2023 .
7. Morgan Sheng . . 19 January 2018 . . 17 . 2 . 88–89 . 10.1038/nrd.2017.271 . 29348680 . 1 November 2023 .
8. Web site: Morgan Sheng, Ph.D. . . 21 July 2017. Simons Foundation . 1 November 2023 .
9. Web site: Morgan Sheng Appointed VP Neuroscience Research at Genentech . . 8 October 2008 . BioPharm . 1 November 2023 .
10. Web site: Morgan Sheng . . Picower Institute for Learning and Memory . . 1 November 2023 .
11. Web site: Twelve with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2023 . . 10 October 2023 . MIT News . . 1 November 2023 .
12. Web site: National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members . . 9 October 2023 . . 1 November 2023 .
13. Web site: Morgan Sheng wins Julius Axelrod Prize for distinguished achievements in neuropharmacology . Tristan Davies . 27 October 2020 . Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences . . 1 November 2023 .
14. Web site: Society for Neuroscience Presents Julius Axelrod Prize to Morgan Sheng . . 26 October 2020 . . 1 November 2023 .
15. Web site: Fellow: Professor Morgan Sheng FRS FMedSci . . 2009 . . 1 November 2023 .
16. Web site: Fellowship of the Royal Society 1660–2015 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015185820/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RVVZY00MZNrK2YCTTzVrbTFH2t3RxoAZah128gQR-NM/pubhtml . 2015-10-15 . dead .