Chair

Christine M. Gall

Distinguished Professor
and Chair

Cellular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

Primary Appointees

Anne Calof

Professor

Systems Biology of Neural Stem Cells

Lulu Y. Chen

Assistant Professor

Synapse Development and Maintenance in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Robert F. Hunt

Assistant Professor

Epilepsy, Disorders of cortical development

Kei M. Igarashi

Assistant Professor

Sensory perception and memory

Kwang Mook Jung

Associate Adjunct Professor

CNS disorders associated with abnormal lipid regulations

Julie C. Lauterborn

Researcher

Learning and memory, Intellectual disorders

David C. Lyon

Associate Professor and Vice-Chair

Organization and function of the visual system

Daniele Piomelli

Distinguished Professor
Louise Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences

Pain, drug addiction, inflammation and obesity

David J. Reinkensmeyer

Professor

Movement recovery after stroke, spinal cord injury

Richard Robertson, PhD

Richard Robertson

Professor Emeritus

Cell surface molecules that identify certain classes of cells

Ana Solodkin

Associate Professor

Brain network changes as consequence of neurological damage

Oswald Steward

Distinguished Professor and
Reeve-Irvine Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research

Spinal cord injury, Neurodegenerative disorders

Jamie Wikenheiser

Associate Adjunct Professor

Medical education, Pediatric cardiology

Xiangmin Xu

Professor

Learning and memory disorders, Epilepsy, and Schizophrenia

Joint Appointees

Aileen Anderson

Professor

Spinal cord injury

Tallie Z. Baram

Distinguished Professor
Danette “Dee Dee” Shepard Chair in Neurological Studies

Stress, epilepsy, development

Steven C. Cramer

Professor

Stroke, spinal cord injury

Brian J. Cummings

Professor

Neurotrauma, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neural stem cells, clinical translation

Frederick J. Ehlert

Professor

Muscarinic receptors, drug receptor interactions

Massimo Fiandaca

Massimo S. Fiandaca

Associate Professor

Biomarkers, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, convection enhanced delivery, gene therapy

Mark J. Fisher

Professor

Stroke and cerebrovascular disorders

Lisa A. Flanagan

Associate Professor

Neural stem cells, Bioengineering

Alan L. Goldin

Professor

Epilepsy, Myotonia, Periodic Paralysis

Ranjan Gupta

Professor

Nerve entrapment, Carpal tunnel syndrome

Frances M. Leslie

Professor

Drug addiction

Gary Lynch

Distinguished Professor

Disorders of learning and memory

Andre Obenaus

Associate Clinical Professor

Neuroimaging, traumatic brain injury, stroke, stem cells

Diane K. O’Dowd

HHMI Professor

Neuronal plasticity underlying learning and memory

Steven S. Schreiber

Professor

Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease

John H. Weiss

Professor

Alzheimer’s Disease, ALS, Stroke, Epilepsy

Fan-Gang Zeng

Professor

Human communication disorders