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Taylor Abel, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
Susanne E. Ahmari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Elias Aizenman, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Howard J. Aizenstein, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry, Bioengineering
Cognitive and affective neuroscience of aging and geriatric brain disorders
Issam Al Diri, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Chromatin structure and function during retinal development and disease.
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Kathryn M. Albers, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Carmen Andreescu, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Carey D. Balaban, PhD
Professor, Otolaryngology, Biological Sciences, Neurological Surgery
Alison Barth, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Plasticity in developing and adult neocortex.
Aaron Batista, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Marlene Behrmann, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Sarah B. Berman, MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Mitochondria in neurodegeneration
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Corina O. Bondi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology
Edward A. Burton, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Associate Professor of Neurology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Neuroprotective strategies for Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy
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Leah Byrne, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Judy L. Cameron, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Effects of everyday life stresses on behavior and health
Claire E. Cheetham, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Xing Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Jun Chen, PhD
Professor, Neurology, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, V.A. Pittsburgh Health System
Mechanisms of cell death and neuroprotection in cerebral ischemia and Parkinson's disease
Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Cell signaling, dendritic morphogenesis and autophagy/mitophagy in neurodegenerative diseases
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Christopher Cunningham, PhD
Assistant Professor
Brian M. Davis, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Donald B. DeFranco, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Neuroscience
C. Edward Dixon, PhD
Professor, Neurological Surgery, Anesthesiology, Neurobiology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Mechanisms of post-traumatic memory deficits, models of traumatic brain injury, and functional outcomes.
Alexandre Y. Dombrovski, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Yan Dong, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular and circuitry mechanisms underlying pathological neural plasticity
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Christopher Donnelly, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
G. Bard Ermentrout, PhD
Professor, Mathematics, Neurobiology
Applications of mathematics to biological systems
Sean P. Farris, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Fabio Ferrarelli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Julie A. Fiez, PhD
Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience
Neuroimaging and behavioral studies of language, working memory, motivation, and learning
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Kenneth N. Fish, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Functional consequences of altered connectivity in schizophrenia; the early secretory pathway's role in neurodevelopment and synaptogenesis
Zachary Z. Freyberg, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release and their contribution to neuropsychiatric illness
Neeraj J. Gandhi, PhD
Professor, Bioengineering, Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Omar Gharbawie, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Peter J. Gianaros, PhD
Professor, Psychology
Aryn H. Gittis, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Anthony A. Grace, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
J. Timothy Greenamyre, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
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Teresa G. Hastings, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience
Lori L. Holt, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience
Gregg E. Homanics, PhD
Professor, Anesthesiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
Bryan M. Hooks, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
John P. Horn, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Charles C. Horn, PhD
Professor, Medicine
Xiaoming Hu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
The mechanism of neuroinflammation and immunotherapies for stroke
ChengCheng Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Yanhua Huang, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying drug addiction and sleep-mediated regulation of reward.
Tija C. Jacob, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
Jon W. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience, Psychiatry
Karl Kandler, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Plasticity of inhibitory circuits during development and pathology.
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Robert E. Kass, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience
Statistical analysis of neural data.
Anthony E. Kline, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Critical Care Medicine, Psychology, and Center for Neuroscience
H. Richard Koerber, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Julia Kofler, MD
Associate Professor, Pathology, Neuropathology
Radosveta Koldamova, MD, PhD
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Translational neuroscience based on animal models of Alzheimer's disease
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Takashi D.Y. Kozai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Sandra J. Kuhlman, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Cecile D. Ladouceur, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Todd Lamitina, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology
Cynthia Lance-Jones, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
David A. Lewis, MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Functional architecture of the prefrontal cortex and schizophrenia.
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Laura E. Lillien, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Beatriz Luna, PhD
Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Psychology
Transition from adolescent to adult level cognitive control through fMRI, DTI, PET, MRSI and cognitive testing
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Matthew L. MacDonald, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Synaptic protein networks in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric diseases
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Hansruedi Mathys, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
J. Patrick Mayo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
The molecular basis of psychiatric diseases.
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Stephen D. Meriney, PhD
Professor and Chair of Neuroscience; Professor, Psychiatry; Center for Neuroscience Co-Director
Mike Modo, PhD
Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering
Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
Paul W. Munro, PhD
Associate Professor, Information Science
Adaption, learning, and plasticity in simulated neural networks.
Abby Olsen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Carl R. Olson, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Neuroscience
Quasar S. Padiath, PhD
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
Gene identification and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative and demyelinating disorders
Michael J. Palladino, PhD
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology
Molecular mechanisms of metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Udai Pandey, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Molecular mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases.
Andrey A. Parkhitko, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Aravindakshan Parthasarathy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Communication Science and Disorders
Rui Peixoto, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Development of corticostriatal circuits in autism spectrum disorders
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Mary L. Phillips, MD, MD (CANTAB)
Professor, Psychiatry
Identifying neural circuitry problems that underlie abnormal emotion processing in adults and youth with mood disorders.
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Ian F. Pollack, MD
Distinguished Professor, Neurosurgery
Signal transduction pathways in glioma growth, molecular markers of glioma prognosis.
Sarah E. Ross, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Ethan A. Rossi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Bioengineering
Development and deployment of advanced imaging tools to study the healthy and diseased retina at the level of single cells in the living human eye.
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Jonathan E. Rubin, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
Maria (Lania) Eulalia Rubio, MD/PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Caroline A. Runyan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Imaging and manipulating cells and circuits to understand population coding across the cortical hierarchy
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Srivatsun Sadagopan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
José-Alain Sahel, MD
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of retinal degeneration and development of treatments for currently incurable blinding diseases
Dean F. Salisbury, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Human cognitive neuroscience and multimodal neuroimaging of pathology and pathophysiology in the early course of psychosis
Jami L. Saloman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurobiology
Nicole N. Scheff, PhD
Assistant Professor
Oliver Schluter, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of physiological and pathophysiological synaptic plasticity
Andrew B. Schwartz, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology
Rebecca P. Seal, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Marianne L. Seney, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Susan R. Sesack, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Or Shemesh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Shushruth Shushruth, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Afonso C. Silva, PhD
Endowed Chair Professor of Translational Neuroimaging, Neurobiology
Anatomical and functional imaging of the marmoset brain; cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease; genetic engineering.
Matthew A. Smith, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Alexander Sorkin, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Cell Biology and Physiology
Cell and molecular biology of dopamine transporter
Shawn F. Sorrells, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
William R. Stauffer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Sean D. Stocker, PhD
Professor
Peter L. Strick, PhD
Thomas Detre Professor & Chair of Neurobiology
Dandan Sun, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology
Ion transporters in neurological diseases.
Alan F. Sved, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience
Robert A. Sweet, MD
UPMC Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience and Professor of Neurology
Bradley K. Taylor, PhD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Neurobiology and Pharmacology of Chronic Pain and Opioid Dependence
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Tobias Teichert, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering
Neural mechanisms of auditory function and decision-making in the non-human primate
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Amantha Thathiah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology
Cellular and molecular pathogenesis in Alzheimer's disease.
Mary Torregrossa, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Neuromechanical mechanisms for locomotor learning in humans with and without neurological disorders.
Robert S. Turner, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology
Thanos Tzounopoulos, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Research Otolaryngology, Director Pittsburgh Hearing Research Center
Mechanisms underlying normal and pathological hearing
Alberto L. Vazquez, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Imaging of neuronal, metabolic and vascular function and dysfunction
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Timothy Verstynen, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology
Neural basis of action planning, decision-making and skill learning.
Amy K. Wagner, MD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
The impact of gender and changes in neurochemistry on rehabilitation and treatment outcomes after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Clayton A. Wiley, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Ross S. Williamson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Zachary P. Wills, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neural Circuit Development and Dysfunction in Disease
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George F. Wittenberg, MD, PhD
Visiting Professor, Neurology
Restoration of voluntary movement after neurological injury.
Yan Xu, PhD
Peter M. Winter Chair Professor, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, Structural Biology, and Physics & Astronomy
Bill J. Yates, PhD
Professor, Otolaryngology, Neuroscience
Kejie Yin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Kymberly Young, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry