Morgan Sheng

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. 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. He is also an associate member at both The Picower Institute for Learning and McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He has served on the editorial boards of Current Opinions in Neurobiology, Neuron, and The Journal of Neuroscience.

Education Sheng received a PhD in molecular genetics from Harvard University.

Career 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 Morgan Sheng (left) and Eunjoon Kim (right) speaking together at the IBS Conference on Neuronal and Glial Functions. 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

Selected publications