Principal Investigator

   

   

  

       Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D. 

  

          Office: 3104 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Rd, CB# 7513, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

          Lab: 121, 127, and 131 Medical Research Building D, 124 Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
          Tel: 919-843-4729

          Email: shihy@unc.edu

  

  

  

  

Current Positions: 

               Director of Small Animal MRI, Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

               Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

               Adjunct Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina/North Carolina State University
               Faculty Member, Neurobiology Curriculum (Biological & Biomedical Science Program), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

               Associate Faculty Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
               Affiliate Faculty Member, Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  
Education: 

2010 – 2011   Head of Animal MRI (Bruker Biospec 11.7 T, Biospec 7T, and Pharmascan 7T),

                         MRI Division, Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas

2009 – 2011   Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas

2008 – 2009   Postdoctoral Fellow, Functional and Micro-Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 

2005 – 2008   Predoctoral Fellow, Functional and Micro-Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 

2005 – 2008   Ph.D., Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

Selected Awards

ISMRM Junior Fellow Award, ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, San Antonio Area Foundation Research Grant Award, Clinical and Translational Science Award at UTHSCSA (two imaging sub-awards), Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science Translational Technology Resource Award at UTHSCSA, Taiwan National Science Council Research Creativity Award

 

Other Professional Experience:

2012 –             Early Career Reviewer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institute of Heath

2012 –             Editorial Board Member, Frontiers in Brain Imaging Methods

2012 –             Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering

2011 –             Editorial Board Member, Anatomy & Physiology

2010 – 2011    Visiting Scientist, Devers Eye Institute, Legacy Clinical Research and Technology Center, Portland, OR, USA

 

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Postdoctoral Fellows

  

                                   

2012 –             Yu-Chieh Jill Kao, Ph.D. (ykao@unc.edu)

                         Postdoctoral Research Associate (Laboratory Animal Coordinator)

  

 

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Students

 

           

2012 –             John Younce, (john_younce@med.unc.edu)

                         Medical student, Howard Holderness Grant Scholar

 

           

2012 –             Heather Decot (decot@email.unc.edu)

                         Ph.D. student, BBSP-Neurobiology (primary mentor: Dr. Garret Stuber)

  

           

2013 –             Daniel Albaugh, M.S. (albaugh@email.unc.edu)

                         Ph.D. student, BBSP-Neurobiology

 

                                   

2013 –             Shaili Jha (scjha@email.unc.edu)

                         BBSP-Neurobiology Rotation Student

 

                                   

2012 –             Chris Kao (ckao@live.unc.edu)

                         Undergraduate student, Chemistry (Biochemistry Track) and Psychology double major

 

                                   

2012 –             Dong Chen (dongchen@live.unc.edu)

                         Undergraduate student, Biomedical Engineering

 

                                   

2013 –             Ian Jiang (ijiang@live.unc.edu)

                         Undergraduate student, Physics

 

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Visiting Scholar

 

                                   

2012 –             Wenjing Li, M.D. (wenjingl@email.unc.edu)

                         Visiting Postdoctoral Research Scholar

 

                                   

2013 –             Gunhyo Choi, M.S. (ckhyo@msn.com)

                         Visiting Research Scholar

 

 

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Lab Alumni

 

                        

2012 – 2013    Maoxuan Lin, M.D. (linmaoxuan@hotmail.com)

                         Visiting Postdoctoral Research Scholar

 

                       

2012 – 2013    Hsin-Yi Lai, Ph.D. (happydry@ms36.hinet.net)

                         Postdoctoral Research Associate

 

                                   

2012                James Hull (hullj@email.sc.edu)

                         Undergraduate summer student, Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina

 

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