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Dr. Peng Shi obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Anotonio in 2007, and received post-doc training in the University of Florida, 2007-2012. Dr. Shi took an assistant professor role in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from 2012-2016. Since April 2016, Dr. Peng Shi joined Zhejiang University School of Medicine as a prinicipal investigator. Her research is focusing on the resident immune cell microglia, and their regulation on neuronal activity in cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Her work has been published in Immunity, Circulation Research, Hypertension, Stroke and other publications. Dr. Shi’s research has received continuous funding support from the American Heart Association, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. Currently, she is the senior editor of Cellular Molecular Neurobiology, and junior editor of Neuroscience Bulletin.

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