Research Faculty
Billur Akkaya, MD, DPhil
- Department of Neurology
Autoimmunity, Immunoregulation, Immuno-Oncology, Multiple Sclerosis
Research lab
Candice Askwith, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Ion Channels, Neuronal Excitability, Ischemia, Stroke, Neuroprotection, GPCRs
Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD
- Department of Anesthesiology Anesthetic and alcohol-induced neurodegeneration, redox imbalance, and mitochondrial signaling pathways
Krystof Bankiewicz, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery
Gene therapy, Neurodegeneration, Parkinson's Disease, AADC Deficiency, Drug delivery
Ruth M. Barrientos, PhD
- Department of Psychiatry
Aging, Neuroinflammation, Cognition
Tracy Bedrosian, PhD
- Department of Pediatrics
Neurodevelopment, Epilepsy, Somatic Mosaicism, Translational Neuroscience
Thomas Boyd, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Nicotinic receptors, acetylcholine, zebrafish, nicotine
Anthony Brown, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Axon, cytoskeleton, axonal transport
Research lab
Hamdy Elsayed-Awad, MD
- Department of Anesthesiology
Ischemic spinal cord injury and paralysis after aortic surgery
Andy Fischer, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Retina, muller glia, neuronal regeneration
Harry Fu, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease, TBI, tau pathology, neurotrama, ER stress, Glial pathology
Jie Gao, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease, ApoE, Microglia, Lipids
Jonathan Godbout, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Neurotrauma Neuroimmunology and behavior, Microglia, Macrophages, Aging, Stress, TBI Research lab
Stephanie Gorka, PhD
- Department of Psychiatry
Substance use disorders, anxiety disorders, biomarker discovery and validation
Bin Gu, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Epilepsy, SUDEP, Collaborative cross, Systems genetics
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
- Department of Psychiatry
Transgenerational transmission of psychiatric illness, microbiome, stress
Research lab
Martin Haesemeyer, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Behavior, circuits, somatosensation, computation, zebrafish
Paco Herson, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery
Associate Dean for Research Innovation, Professor
James Jontes, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Development, cell adhesion, synaptogenesis, protocadherins
Research lab
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD
- Department of Psychiatry
Psychoneuroimmunology, behavioral immunology
Research lab
Olga Kokiko-Cochran, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury, sleep, stress, inflammation, Alzheimer's
Stephen Kolb, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurology
Motor neuron disease, Neurodegeneration, Neurogenetics, RNA processing, Gene therapy
Research lab
Glenn Lin, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Drug discover and development, Glutamate transporters, Glutamatergic synapses
Setty M. Magana, MD
- Department of Neurology
CNS inflammation, Pediatric, Extracellular vesicles, noncoding RNA
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
Dana McTigue, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Spinal cord injury, metabolic disease, myelination, fatty liver disease
Research lab
Kirk Mykytyn, PhD
- Department of Biochemistry
Channels, stroke, ischemia, toxicity, electrophysiology
John Oberdick, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Molecular genetics of developmental disorders
Karl Obrietan, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Circadian timing, cognition, calcium, synapse, Alzheimer's disease
Jose Otero, MD, PhD
- Department of Pathology
Neuropathology, neoplastic disorders of the CNS
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
Phillip Popovich, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Neuroimmunology, Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury
Research lab
Andrew Sas, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurology
Neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, neurotrauma
Research Lab
Sabhya Rana, PhD
- Department of Neurology
Neurotrauma, Breathing, Neural and Glial Circuits, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
Research lab
Grace Shin, PhD
- Department of Neurology
Precision approaches to CIPN intervention, Comorbidity of CIPN, Predictive modeling for CIPN diagnosis and prognosis
Wenjing Sun, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Myelination, oligodendrocyte precursor cell, neurotrama, neuronal plasticity
Andrea Tedeschi, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Neurotrama, stroke, axon groth and regeneration
Research lab
Kristy Townsend, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery
Neural plasticity, energy balance, neuropathy, diabetes/metabolism, stem cells
Research lab
Jacy Wagnon, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Epilepsy, genetics, sodium channels, gene expression, MicroRNA
Jason Wester, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Cortex, Development, Circuits, Synaptic physiology
Research lab
Min Zhou, MD, PhD
- Department of Neuroscience
Astrocyte, gap junction, potassium channels, syncytial isopotentiality, stroke