Katherine Shim, PhD

  • Investigator, Children's Wisconsin's Research Institute
  • Assistant professor, Pediatrics, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Otolaryngology and Communications Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin

Locations

Overview

Division

  • Genetics

Research center/program

  • Regenerative Medicine and Developmental Biology

Research interests

  • Cell and developmental biology
  • Ear diseases, deafness
  • Environmental health
  • Genetic diseases/genomics

Study interests

  • Hearing and balance
  • Neurodegeneration
  • Mouse genetics
  • Birth defects

Education

  • Doctorate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 2001
  • Post-doctoral fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2001-2007

Research and publications

Research

  • Genetic Analysis of the Induction and Morphogenesis of the Inner Ear, National Institutes of Health, principal investigator
  • Genetic Analysis of Degeneration of the Olfactory Epithelium, NIEHS Children's Environmental Health Sciences Core Center, principal investigator

Publications