Yanqin Shen received her Bachelor's degree in Clinical Medicine from Yan'an Medical College in 1994, her Master's degree in Pathology from Shantou University Medical College in 1997, and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology from the University of Bordeaux II in 2005. From 2007 to 2008, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan Medical School. After returning to China in 2008, she joined the Neuroscience Center at Shantou University Medical College as a professor. In September 2013, she joined Wuxi Medical School, Jiangnan University, where she currently serves as a member of the Asia-Pacific Society for Neuroimmunology, an editorial board member of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity-Integrity, and a council member of both the Jiangsu Neuroscience Society and the Jiangsu Developmental Biology Society. She is also the head of the Immunology Teaching and Research Section at Wuxi Medical School. Professor Shen has long been engaged in research on neuroimmunology, neurology, neuropharmacology, neuropathology, and geriatrics. Her research interests primarily focus on the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and the mechanisms of nerve regeneration following spinal cord injury. She has published over 40 papers in international core journals and has delivered more than 10 presentations at international and domestic academic conferences. She serves as a reviewer for numerous English-language journals and is an expert reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology. Over the past ten years, she has led more than 20 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, provincial natural science foundations, and the Ministry of Education. In 2022, Professor Shen received the BBI Annual Impact Award for her research titled "Neuroprotective effects of fecal microbiota transplantation on MPTP-induced Parkinson’s disease mice: Gut microbiota, glial reaction and TLR4/TNF-α signaling pathway," published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity in 2018 (Impact Factor = 19.227). She is the first author from Jiangnan University and the second Chinese author to receive this award. |
