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]
1999: Young Investigator Award, Society for Neuroscience
1995: Member, Society for Neuroscience
Selected publications
Sheng, Morgan; Greenberg, Michael E. (1 April 1990). "The regulation and function of c-fos and other immediate early genes in the nervous system". Neuron. 4 (4). Cell Press: 477–485. doi:10.1016/0896-6273(90)90106-P. PMID 1969743. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
Kim, Eunjoon; Sheng, Morgan (1 October 2004). "PDZ domain proteins of synapses". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 5 (10): 771–781. doi:10.1038/nrn1517. PMID 15378037. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
Sheng, Morgan; Thompson, Margaret A.; Greenberg, Michael E. (7 June 1991). "CREB: a Ca2+-Regulated Transcription Factor Phosphorylated by Calmodulin-Dependent Kinases". Science. 252 (5011): 1427–1430. doi:10.1126/science.1646483. PMID 1646483. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
Morgan, Sheng; Cummings, Jennifer; Roldan, Leslie Ann; Jan, Yuh Nung; Jan, Lily Yeh (10 March 1994). "Changing subunit composition of heteromeric NMDA receptors during development of rat cortex". Nature. 368 (6467). Nature Publishing Group UK: 144–147. doi:10.1038/368144a0. PMID 8139656. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
Li, Zheng; Okamoto, Ken-Ichi; Hayashi, Yasunori; Sheng, Morgan (17 December 2004). "The importance of dendritic mitochondria in the morphogenesis and plasticity of spines and synapses". Cell. 119 (6). Elsevier: 873–887. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.11.003. PMID 15607982.
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^Tristan Davies (27 October 2020). "Morgan Sheng wins Julius Axelrod Prize for distinguished achievements in neuropharmacology". Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
^"Society for Neuroscience Presents Julius Axelrod Prize to Morgan Sheng". Society for Neuroscience. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
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