Hsiao-Huei Chen
PhD
Senior Scientist, Neuroscience
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, Medicine
University of Ottawa
Professor (adj), Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Graduate program of Neuroscience
University of Ottawa
Professor, Graduate program of Pathology and Experimental Medicine (PhD)
University of Ottawa
Professor (adj), Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Center
National Taiwan University
Research Groups
Chen Lab
Bio
Hsiao-Huei Chen, PhD, Senior Scientist & Professor
Ph.D. Committee on Virology, University of Chicago, 1995
BS. Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989
2003-2004 Senior Research Associate, Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh
1997-2003 Research Associate, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh.
1995-1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh.
ACADEMIC HONOURS:
2014-2018 Mid-Career Award, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (ranked #1)
2009-2014 New Investigator Award, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
2009-2014 New Investigator Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (declined to accept the NIA, HSFC)
2009-2014 Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
2009 Henry J. M. Barnett Research Scholarship award, The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
1999-2002 National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health (USA)(National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke) 1997-2000 National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health (USA) (National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute)(terminated in 19999 for relocation)
1997-2000 Postdoctoral fellowship, American Heart Association (declined to accept the NRSA, NIH)
News
Publications
Identifying Structural Variants and Their Contribution to Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The Long and the Short of It
2025-02-18 Go to publicationRevisiting the MMTV Zoonotic Hypothesis to Account for Geographic Variation in Breast Cancer Incidence
2022-03-09 Go to publicationActivation of tyrosine phosphatase PTP1B in pyramidal neurons impairs endocannabinoid signaling by tyrosine receptor kinase trkB and causes schizophrenia-like behaviors in mice
2020-10-01 Go to publicationHyperactivated PTP1B phosphatase in parvalbumin neurons alters anterior cingulate inhibitory circuits and induces autism-like behaviors
2020-02-24 Go to publicationNeuronal Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B Hastens Amyloid β-Associated Alzheimer's Disease in Mice
2020-02-12 Go to publicationRelated Research at The Ottawa Hospital
- Neuroscience Program
- Mental health
- Aging
- Dementia
- Depression
- Alzheimer's
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Anxiety
- Maternal and fetal health
- Obesity
- Schizophrenia
- Stroke
- Vascular, heart and metabolic disease
- Autism
- Tourette's
- Discovery research
- Drug development
- Molecular and cellular biology
- Neuro-stimulation
- Translational research
- Optogenetics
- Transgenic/knockout models
- Disease models
- Gene expression