Her research combines mechanistic enzymology with biophysical characterization techniques (e.g. Cryo em and fluorescence spectroscopy) to understand biogenesis pathways.

She moved to the United States after high school, and studied chemistry at the University of Maryland, College Park.

She moved to University of California, San Francisco as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked with Peter Walter on cell biology.

[1] Shan looks to understand the molecular mechanisms of co-translational protein machineries; including folding, assembly, targeting and biogenesis.

[3] Using an array of biophysical characterization techniques, Shan looks to build a model that can predict what happens to nascent proteins as they emerge from the ribosome and their environment impacts these processes.