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Dan Shan
Research Associate. University of
Alabama at Birmingham.
Dan Shan received her
Bachelor in Medicine degree from
School of Medicine,
Wuhan University,
China
in 1991. She has worked as an OB-GYN doctor in the 2nd Hospital of WISCO
in Wuhan, China for 6 years. In 1997, she went
to Japan
and received her very first scientific research training
in human endometrial cancer research at
Kyushu University,
Japan. During
her stay in
Japan, she not only
published a scientific paper and multiple conference
abstracts but also passed the Level 1 (the highest
level) of the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, an
official test for foreigners who use Japanese as a
second language. In 2002, she started her first job at
UAB, working as a Research Assistant in Dr. Tim Nagy’s
lab in the Department of Nutrition Sciences. In 2005,
she transferred to UAB Department of Medicine working as
a Research Associate. When she was in Medicine, she
worked with Dr. John Chatham to study cardiomyocyte
function and metabilosim in diabetes and ischemic
disease. Since she came to UAB, she has published 2
peer-reviewed papers and 3 abstracts. Dan was recently
joined to Dr. Robert McCullumsmith’s lab in the
Department of Psychiatry.
email:dshan@uab.edu |