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Shaowen Bao, PhD

Associate Professor, Physiology
Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP
Associate Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP
Member, Graduate Faculty
Shaowen Bao

Arizona Health Sciences Center Room 4122

520-621-5680
sbao@arizona.edu

Dr. Bao’s current research focuses on mechanisms of tinnitus using animal models. Recent findings from his laboratory suggest that neuroinflammation may be related to overexcitation in the auditory pathway, possibly contributing to pathologies such as tinnitus and other central auditory processing deficits. The research team is looking for ways to prevent and reverse noise-induced neuroinflammation as an option for treatment of noise-induced tinnitus.

Degrees

  • PhD: Neuroscience, University of Southern California
  • MS: Biophysics, Tsinghua University, 1993
  • BS: Biology, Tsinghua University, 1990
Fellowship
University of California, San Francisco, Neuroscience, 2004
Research Interests

tinnitus, hearing loss-related sensory and cognitive disorders, auditory cortex plasticity and sensory processing, experience-dependent perceptual learning, neural mechanisms of auditory perception, development of sensory representations from acoustic input