Research Faculty

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Billur Akkaya, MD, DPhil

  • Department of Neurology
    Autoimmunity, Immunoregulation, Immuno-Oncology, Multiple Sclerosis
    Research lab
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Candice Askwith, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Ion Channels, Neuronal Excitability, Ischemia, Stroke, Neuroprotection, GPCRs
Krystof Bankiewicz, MD, PhD

Krystof Bankiewicz, MD, PhD

  • Department of Neurosurgery
    Gene therapy, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, AADC Deficiency, Drug delivery
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Ruth M. Barrientos, PhD

  • Department of Psychiatry
    Aging, Neuroinflammation, Cognition
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Tracy Bedrosian, PhD

  • Department of Pediatrics
    Neurodevelopment, Epilepsy, Somatic Mosaicism, Translational Neuroscience
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Thomas Boyd, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Nicotinic receptors, acetylcholine, zebrafish, nicotine
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Hamdy Elsayed-Awad, MD

  • Department of Anesthesiology
    Ischemic spinal cord injury and paralysis after aortic surgery
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Andy Fischer, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Retina, muller glia, neuronal regeneration
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Harry Fu, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Alzheimer's disease, TBI, tau pathology, neurotrama, ER stress, Glial pathology
Jie Gao, PhD

Jie Gao, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Alzheimer's disease, ApoE, Microglia, Lipids
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Jonathan Godbout, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Neurotrauma Neuroimmunology and behavior, Microglia, Macrophages, Aging, Stress, TBI Research lab
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Stephanie Gorka, PhD

  • Department of Psychiatry
    Substance use disorders, anxiety disorders, biomarker discovery and validation
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Bin Gu, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Epilepsy, SUDEP, Collaborative cross, Systems genetics
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

Tamar Gur, MD, PhD

  • Department of Psychiatry
    Transgenerational transmission of psychiatric illness, microbiome, stress
    Research lab
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Martin Haesemeyer, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Behavior, circuits, somatosensation, computation, zebrafish
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Paco Herson, PhD

  • Department of Neurosurgery
    Associate Dean for Research Innovation, Professor
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Nagaraj Kerur, PhD

  • Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
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Olga Kokiko-Cochran, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Traumatic brain injury, sleep, stress, inflammation, Alzheimer's
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Stephen Kolb, MD, PhD

  • Department of Neurology
    Motor neuron disease, Neurodegeneration, Neurogenetics, RNA processing, Gene therapy
    Research lab
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Glenn Lin, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Drug discover and development, Glutamate transporters, Glutamatergic synapses
Magana Setty, MD

Setty M. Magana, MD

  • Department of Neurology
    CNS inflammation, Pediatric, Extracellular vesicles, noncoding RNA
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Stuart Mangel, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Synaptic plasticity and modulation in the retina, circadian rhythms, information processing, transporter function, development of synaptic function, neuronal degeneration, computational neuroscience
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Dana McTigue, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Spinal cord injury, metabolic disease, myelination, fatty liver disease
    Research lab
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Kirk Mykytyn, PhD

  • Department of Biochemistry
    Channels, stroke, ischemia, toxicity, electrophysiology
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John Oberdick, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Molecular genetics of developmental disorders
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Karl Obrietan, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Circadian timing, cognition, calcium, synapse, Alzheimer's disease
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Jose Otero, MD, PhD

  • Department of Pathology
    Neuropathology, neoplastic disorders of the CNS
Kinh Luan Phan, MD

K. Luan Phan, MD

  • Department of Psychiatry
    Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion, Cognition and Motivation, Functional Neuroanatomy Anxiety, Mood and Addiction Disorders, Brain Mechanisms and Predictors of Treatment Response in Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Functional Neuroimaging of Drug Effects on Emotion and Cognition
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Leah Pyter, PhD

  • Department of Psychiatry
    Cancer, mental health, inflammation, cognition, integrative biology
    Research lab
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Andrew Sas, MD, PhD

  • Department of Neurology
    Neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, neurotrauma
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Jan Schwab, MD, PhD

  • Department of Neurology
    Spinal cord injury, Inflammation in the lesioned CNS, CNS on the immune system, Disease modifying factor hindering neurological recovery
    Research lab
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Grace Shin, PhD

  • Department of Neurology
    Precision approaches to CIPN intervention, Comorbidity of CIPN, Predictive modeling for CIPN diagnosis and prognosis
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Wenjing Sun, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Myelination, oligodendrocyte precursor cell, neurotrama, neuronal plasticity
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Kristy Townsend, PhD

  • Department of Neurosurgery
    Neural plasticity, energy balance, neuropathy, diabetes/metabolism, stem cells
    Research lab
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Cole Vonder Haar, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    TBI, Behavior, Psychiatric, Rat
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Jacy Wagnon, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Epilepsy, genetics, sodium channels, gene expression, MicroRNA
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Marshall V. Williams, PhD

  • Department of Genetics
    Herpesviruses, dUTPase, dementia
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Min Zhou, MD, PhD

  • Department of Neuroscience
    Astrocyte, gap junction, potassium channels, syncytial isopotentiality, stroke

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