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Guo-li Ming, a Chinese-American neuroscientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a pioneer in using patient-derived human stem cells to study neurodevelopmental disorders. Trained first as a physician in China and later as a neuroscientist in the United States, Ming built her career around one goal: understanding how the human brain develops, adapts, and becomes vulnerable to disease. Early in her career, she made fundamental discoveries about how neurons gr

Sebastian Seung, a Korean-American, is an interdisciplinary neuroscientist whose career bridges physics, computer science, and neuroscience. Today, he is best known for pioneering the field of connectomics —the effort to map the brain’s wiring, or the connectome . His journey to this point has been anything but ordinary. Seung entered Harvard University at just sixteen, initially drawn to mathematics and physics. By 1990, he had completed a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, focus

Dan Yang (丹扬) is a Chinese-American researcher. Her father, a physicist, inspired her to go into science by telling her stories of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Using the mouse as her model organism, combined with optogenetics, imaging, virus-mediated circuit tracing, and electrophysiology, she researches neural circuits that control sleep in the mammalian brain, as well as how the "frontal cortex exerts top-down executive control." She has received the Alfred P. Sloan Res

This Asian-American and Pacific Islander Month, Teen Neuroscience Alliance is honoring Asian-American Neuroscientists! This website was...