个人简介

Joy J. Goto earned a B.S. in Chemistry from UC Davis and Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA. She was the recipient of the UCLA Alumni Association distinguished dissertation year award and a Collegium of University Teaching fellowship. Dr. Goto was a John Douglas French Alzheimer s Foundation research fellow in the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at the Center for Aging, Genetics, and Neurodegeneration at Harvard Medical School and a Beckman Senior Research Fellow in the Neurosciences Division at the City of Hope Beckman Research Institute in Duarte, Calfiornia. She was a visiting Assistant Professor of chemistry in the Joint Science Department of Scripps, Claremont McKenna and Pitzer Colleges prior to joining Fresno State in 2007. Dr. Goto uses her training in bioinorganic chemistry and neuroscience to contribute to the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, oxidative stress and metal homeostasis.