Richard W. Tsien

Richard Tsien
Born
Richard Winyu Tsien
錢永佑

(1945-03-03) 3 March 1945 (age 79)
Dading, Guizhou, China
NationalityAmerican
SpouseJulia Shiang
Children3
FatherHsue-Chu Tsien
RelativesRoger Y. Tsien (brother)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology (SB, SM)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Sciences (1997)[1]
Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Neurobiology
InstitutionsNew York University Medical Center
Stanford University
ThesisThe kinetics of conductance changes in heart cells (1970)
Doctoral advisorJean Banister[2]
Websitemed.nyu.edu/faculty/richard-tsien
Richard W. Tsien
Traditional Chinese錢永佑
Simplified Chinese钱 永 佑
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQián Yǒngyòu

Richard Winyu Tsien (born 3 March 1945), is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and neurobiologist. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center,[3] and also an emeritus faculty member of Stanford University School of Medicine.[4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Richard Tsien". www.nasonline.org.
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  3. ^ "Richard W. Tsien, Internationally Renowned Scientist, to Be Inaugural Director of New Neuroscience Institute - Newswise: News for Journalists". www.newswise.com.
  4. ^ "Richard Tsien". Stanford University School of Medicine. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Bio". tsienlab.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Bio". www.stanford.edu. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Neurotree - Richard W. Tsien". neurotree.org.