Shari Wiseman is an American neuroscientist and the editor in chief of

Nature Neuroscience ''Nature Neuroscience'' is a monthly scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group. Its focus is original research papers relating specifically to neuroscience and was established in May 1998. The chief editor is Shari Wiseman. According ...

Education

Wiseman has two PhDs from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and undertook postdoctoral research at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center where she worked on animal models of autism spectrum disorders. After that, she undertook postdoctoral training at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

where she focused on the regulation of GABAB receptors by

excitotoxic In excitotoxicity, nerve cells suffer damage or death when the levels of otherwise necessary and safe neurotransmitters such as glutamate become pathologically high, resulting in excessive stimulation of receptors. For example, when glutamate re ...

stimuli.

Career

She has worked at

since 2017, as an associate editor, becoming the editor in chief in 2021.

Selected publications

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Senescence in Down syndrome NPCs

, 2022 Feb;25(2):131. doi: 10.1038/s41593-022-01016-6. PMID 35132233''

Personal life

Wiseman lives in New York City. She is a mother of two children.

References

Living people Yale University alumni Academic journal editors American women neuroscientists Tufts University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-editor-stub