Carla J. Shatz

Carla J. Shatz
Institutions	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University
Alma mater	Radcliffe College, University College London, Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel
Other academic advisors	Pasko Rakic

Dr. Carla J. Shatz (born 1947) is an American neurobiologist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.

She was the first woman to receive a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard, to win a tenured position at Stanford Medical School and to head Harvard's Department of Neurobiology.

Shatz graduated from Radcliffe College in 1969 with a B.A. in chemistry. She received an M.Phil. in Physiology from the University College London in 1971 on a Marshall Scholarship. In 1976, she received a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard Medical School, where she studied with the Nobel laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. From 1976 to 1978 she obtained postdoctoral training with Dr. Pasko Rakic in the department of neuroscience, Harvard Medical School.

In 1978, Shatz moved to Stanford University, where she began her studies of the development of the mammalian visual system in the department of Neurobiology. She became professor of neurobiology in 1989. In 1992, she moved her laboratory to the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she became a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

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