Shinghua Ding

Shinghua Ding portrait

Shinghua Ding

Cramer W. LaPierre Professor, Biological and Biomedical Engineering

324W Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center

Phone: 573.884.2489

Email: dings@missouri.edu

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Biography

Shinghua Ding is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and an investigator at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center at the University of Missouri.

His current research is focusing on glial cell function and neuron-glia interactions in the central nervous system, stem cell differentiation and transplantation and ion channel function and modulation.

Education

PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo
BS from the Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Technical Focus

Glia-neuron interactions

Glial function

In vivo two-photon imaging

Ischemic stroke

Neural degeneration and regeneration