Li-Huei Tsai

Li-Huei Tsai
蔡立慧
Born (1960-03-18) March 18, 1960 (age 64)
Taiwan
Alma materUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
Institutions
Doctoral advisorEd Harlow
Doctoral studentsGentry Patrick
Websitetsailaboratory.mit.edu/li-huei-tsai/

Li-Huei Tsai (Chinese: 蔡立慧; born 18 March 1960) is an American neuroscientist and the director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is known for her work on neurological disorders that affect learning and memory, particularly for her research on Alzheimer's disease and the role of CDK5 and chromatin remodeling in the progression of the disease. Additionally, her laboratory has innovated numerous applications of induced pluripotent stem cells for in vitro modeling of neurological diseases.[1]

  1. ^ Penney J, Ralvenius WT, Tsai LH (2020). "Modeling Alzheimer's disease with iPSC-derived brain cells". Mol Psychiatry. 25 (1): 148–167. doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0468-3. PMC 6906186. PMID 31391546.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)