Chunfeng (Sheryl) Tan, MD, PhD

Biography

Dr. Tan has worked as a trainee and faculty member at Niigata University, Japan, where she conducted extensive research in Neuropathology.  As a neuropathologist, she accumulated vast experience in human anatomy, microscopic investigation of specimens and histotechnology for clinicopathological research. After moving to the United States, Dr. Tan worked in the basic and translational research laboratories and focused on cellular and molecular neuroscience. She broadened her expertise in Pathology and contributed to multiple basic and translational research projects to understand the neurobiology and pathophysiology of brain disorders, including cognition, traumatic brain injury, stroke, anxiety/depression, schizophrenia/psychosis and neuroendocrine cancer. Dr. Tan has expanded her experience in animal anatomy and histopathology and strengthened the technologies for basic and translational research. The studies she has led and collaborated on have been published in major journals including Neuropathology, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Cancer. Moreover, Dr. Tan has been involved in building the human brain banks and has taught courses to members of the Willed Body Program on how to effectively harvest the human brain.

In her spare time, Dr. Tan enjoys photography, cooking, traveling and playing with her kids.