LI-HUEI TSAI
Li-Huei Tsai
Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory,
Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Email: lhtsai@mit.edu
Phone: 617-324-1660
Office: 46-4325A
Photo by Azeddine Tahiri
Short Biography
- Li-Huei Tsai received her Ph.D degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
- DR. Tsai completed her postdoctoral work with Ed Harlow’s laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital.
- In 1994, Dr. Tsai joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and was named an investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1997.
- In 2006, she was appointed Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and joined the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT.
Awards
- Outstanding Contributor Award, Alzheimer Research Forum
- Alzheimer’s Research Consortium
- Academician, Academia Sinica
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Award
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- NIH Cantoni Lecture Award
- Glenn Award For Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)