Fei Fang Shih, M.D., Ph.D. [ contact information ]
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Dr. Fei F. Shih is a magnum cum laude graduate of Harvard College
and an M.D., Ph.D. graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shih did her doctoral
with Andrew Canton working on mechanisms of lymphocyte function in immunity. She completed
her residency in Pediatrics at the St. Louis Children's Hospital and her fellowship in pediatric
rheumatology at Washington University School of Medicine. She completed her postdoctoral work
in the laboratory of Paul Allen and is currently a Pediatric Scientist Development Program
scholar whose work is focused on the biological roles of T cells in the pathogenesis of childhood
rheumatic disease. Dr. Shih is the recipient of many awards for her work, including the 2001 Gilstrap
Award fellowship award from Washington University School of Medicine.
Selected Publications
Shih FF, Cerasoli DM, Canton AJ:
A major Tcell determinant from the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) can
be a cryptic self peptide in HA transgenic mice.
Int. Immunol.
1997;
9:249.
Canton AJ, Cerasoli DM, Shih FF:
Immune recognition of influenza hemagglutinin as a viral and a neo-self-antigen.
Immunol. Res.
1998;
17:23.
Riley MP, Shih FF, Jordan M.S., Petrone AL, Cerasoli DM, Scott P, Canton AJ:
CD4+ T cells that evade deletion by a self peptide display Th1-biased
differntiation.
Eur. J. Immunol.
2001;
31:311.
Mandik-Nayak L, Wipke BT,
Shih FF, Unanue ER, Allen PM:
Despite ubiquitous autoantigen expression, arthritogenic autoantibody response
initiates in the local lymph node.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
2002;
99:14368.
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