John H. Ngai MD

Physician

1150 Veterans BlvdRedwood City, CA 94063
Phone+1 650-299-2000

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Summary

Dr. John Ngai, MD is a general surgeon in Redwood City, California.

Education & Training

University of California San Francisco (East Bay)Residency, Surgery, 1991 - 1993
Kaiser Permanente Northern California (San Francisco)Internship, Transitional Year, 1987 - 1988
University of Cincinnati College of MedicineClass of 1987

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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

42 citations
Perspectives on defining cell types in the brain.
Eran A. Mukamel, John Ngai
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2019-06-01
88 citations
Performance Assessment and Selection of Normalization Procedures for Single-Cell RNA-Seq.
Michael B. Cole, Davide Risso, Allon Wagner, David DeTomaso, John Ngai
Cell Systems. 2019-04-24
62 citations
Complementary networks of cortical somatostatin interneurons enforce layer specific control.
Alexander Naka, Julia Veit, Ben Shababo, Rebecca K. Chance, Davide Risso
Elife. 2019-03-18

Press Mentions

Pittsburgh Project to Pave Way for Technology to Revolutionize Treatment of Fatal Brain DiseasesOctober 5th, 2022
UC San Diego, Salk and Others Seek to Map the Human Brain over a LifetimeSeptember 22nd, 2022
Neuroscientists Have Revealed the First Complete Map of Brain CellsOctober 19th, 2021