Dr. Li Is a professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning; Shanghai “Shu Guang” Scholar; Project Leader of the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program). Dr. Li won several prestigious awards, including Young Investigator Awards of NARSAD and CTF.

Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia and Depression; Mechanisms and therapeutics of cognitive deficits in Neurofibromatosis 1(NF1); Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders; Molecular cognition; iPS and brain tumor.

1. Zhou M#, Li W *#, Huang S, Song J, Kim JY, Tian X, Kang E, Sano Y, Liu C, J. Balaji, Wu S, Zhou Y, Zhou Y, Parivash SN, Ehninger D, He L, Song H, Ming G-L, Silva AJ*. mTOR Inhibition Ameliorates Cognitive and Affective Deficits Caused by Disc1 Knockdown in Adult-Born Dentate Granule Neurons, Neuron, 20;77(4):647-754,2013 Feb

2. Li W *#,Zhou Y#, Tian X#, Kim T, Ito N, Watanabe K, Tsuji A, Niimi K, Aoyama Y, Arai T, Takahashi E*, New ataxic tottering-6j mouse allele containing a Cacna1a gene mutation, PLoS ONE,7(8): e44230, 2012 Aug

3. Yuan A,Yi Z,Sun J,Du Y, Yu T, Zhang C, Liu Y, Zhou Y, Liu D, Li H, Xu Y, Cheng Z, Li W *,Yu S*.Effect of SOX10 gene polymorphism on early onset schizophrenia in Chinese Han population，Neurosci Lett,521(2):93-7, 2012 Jul 19

4. Ehninger D, Li W, Fox K, Stryker M.P, Silva A.J, Reversing neurodevelopmental disorders in adults, Neuron, 60(6):950-960,2008 Dec 26

5. Li W, Zhou Y, Jentsch J. D, Ehninger D, Brown R.A.M, Tian X , Hennah W, Peltonen L, Lönnqvist J, Huttunen M.O, Kaprio J, Trachtenberg J.T, Silva A. J, Cannon T. D., Specific developmental disruption of disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 function results in schizophrenia-related phenotypes in mice, PNAS,104(46):18280-18285,2007 Nov 13

6. Li W, Y Cui, Kushner S.A, Brown R.A.M, Frankland P. W, Jentsch J. D, Cannon T. D, Silva A. J, TheHMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, lovastatin, reverses the learning and attention deficits in a mouse model of Neurofibromatosis Type 1., Curr Biol., 15(21), pp 1961-1967, 2005/11/8

7. Li W, Okano A, Tian QB, Nakayama K, Furihata T, Nawa H, Suzuki T., Characterization of a novel synGAP isoform, synGAP-beta., J Biol Chem., 276((24)), pp 21417-21424, 2001/6/15

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