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  • Mark Alkema

    Mark Alkema , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: C.elegans behavioral genetics

  • Sandra C.V. Almeida

    Sandra C.V. Almeida , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer disease (AD).

  • Raffi V. Aroian

    Raffi V. Aroian , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    Focus:  Assessing how vertebrate hosts and their immune system interact with intestinal nematodes, to control autoimmune diseases including MS; and the cognitive impact of parasitic nematodes.

  • Neil Aronin

    Neil Aronin , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Higgins Family Professor of Neuroscience
    Focus: Neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.
    Lab Web-page

  • Ingolf M. Bach

    Ingolf M. Bach , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, Department of Radiology, Program in Molecular Medicine

    Focus: Neuronal Cell Fate Specification.      

     

  • Eric H. Baehrecke

    Eric H. Baehrecke , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

    Focus: Cell death and autophagy.

  • Christina Baer

    Christina Baer , PhD

    Associate Director

    Programs: Department of Microbiology, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    SCOPE Imaging Core Director

    Focus: Light microscopy and spatial 'omics

  • Ana Rita Batista

    Ana Rita Batista , PhD

    Instructor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Developing gene therapies for untreatable genetic diseases affecting the CNS  

  • Sheldon Benjamin

    Sheldon Benjamin , MD

    Professor Emeritus

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Clinical Neuropsychiatry and neuropsychiatry training

     

  • Milena Bogunovic

    Milena Bogunovic , MD, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Pathology

    Focus: Macrophages and the enteric nervous system in intestinal health and disease

  • Daryl A. Bosco

    Daryl A. Bosco , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Paul J. DiMare Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease   
    Focus: Pathogenic mechanisms underlying Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; protein misfolding in ALS
    Lab Webpage

     

  • Gabriella Boulting

    Gabriella Boulting , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Activity-dependent gene expression in the primate brain

  • Michael H. Brodsky

    Michael H. Brodsky , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

    Focus: Genetic modeling of disease

  • Robert H. Brown, Jr.

    Robert H. Brown, Jr. , MD, DPhil

    Professor and Vice Chair

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Chair in Neuroscience
    Focus: Identification of gene defects in neuromuscular diseases; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

  • Alexandra C. Byrne

    Alexandra C. Byrne , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Mechanisms of axon regeneration and degeneration in the aging nervous system

  • Lina Marcela Carmona

    Lina Marcela Carmona , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying motor learning

  • Yingleong Chan

    Yingleong Chan , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Using induced pluripotent stem cells from patient samples to model Herpes viral infection as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and hearing loss due to Cisplatin treatment.
    Lab WebPage

  • Felicia Chu

    Felicia Chu , MD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Epilepsy

  • David M. Cochran

    David M. Cochran , MD, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry, Eunice K. Shriver Center

    Barrett Family Term Chair in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    Focus: Neurodevelopmental disorders

  • Silvia Corvera

    Silvia Corvera , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    Endowed Chair in Diabetes
    Focus: Adipose tissue biology and metabolic diseases.

  • Michael P. Czech

    Michael P. Czech , PhD

    Professor Emeritus

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    The Isadore and Fannie Foxman Chair of Medical Research
    Focus: Investigating cellular and molecular interations among metabolic tissues, macrophages, neuronal signals and the vasculature that define both normal and metabolic disease states.

  • Eleonora S. D'Ambrosio

    Eleonora S. D'Ambrosio , MD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Developing gene therapies for rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases.

  • Roger J. Davis

    Roger J. Davis , PhD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    H. Arthur Smith Chair in Cancer Research
    Focus: Mechanisms by which growth factors regulate cellular proliferation and signaling.

     

  • George J. DeMarco

    George J. DeMarco , MS, DVM, DACLAM

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Pathology

    Director, Department of Animal Medicine

  • Janice A. Dominov

    Janice A. Dominov , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Investigate neuromuscular diseases with an emphasis on congenital and other muscular dystrophies; cell death mechanisms and inflammatory pathway regulation.

     

  • E. Kale Edmiston

    E. Kale Edmiston , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Associate Director NeuroNexus Institute

    Focus: Sensory perception in people with or at risk for mood and anxiety disorders.

  • Charles P. Emerson Jr.

    Charles P. Emerson Jr. , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    PI, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School

    Focus: Muscular Dystrophies
    Lab website

     

  • Patrick Emery

    Patrick Emery , PhD

    Professor and Vice Chair

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Circadian Rhythms and photoreception in Drosophila.

     

  • Xiaoduo Fan

    Xiaoduo Fan , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Schizophrenia

  • Minggang Fang

    Minggang Fang , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

    Focus: Identification of drug targets and small molecules to treat Fragile X Syndrome and Friedreich's Ataxia

  • Michael M. Francis

    Michael M. Francis , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity; Neuronal circuit development and function in C. elegans.
    Lab Webpage

     

  • Jean A. Frazier

    Jean A. Frazier , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center

    Robert M. and Shirley S. Siff Chair in Autism
    Focus: Autism, early onset schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, neuroimaging, psychopharmacology.
    The Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative (CANDI)

     

  • Kensuke Futai

    Kensuke Futai , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: The roles of Inhibitory neurons in neuropsychiatric diseases.

     

  • Susan B. Gagliardi

    Susan B. Gagliardi , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Undergraduate and graduate neuroanatomy education.

     

  • Fen-Biao Gao

    Fen-Biao Gao , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: RNA Therapeutics Institute

    The Governor Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research
    Focus: Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and ALS.
    Lab Webpage

  • Guangping Gao

    Guangping Gao , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology, Horae Gene Therapy Center, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Director, Horae Gene Therapy Center

    Penelope Booth Rockwell Chair in Biomedical Research
    Focus: Adeno-associated virus vectors for gene therapy of genetic diseases including Canavan Disease

  • Rachel M. Gerstein

    Rachel M. Gerstein , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: Immune system dysfunction including multiple sclerosis, with an emphasis on B lymphocyte contribution to pathology and biomarkers of disease progression.

  • Dominic Gessler

    Dominic Gessler , MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurological Surgery

    Focus: Gene Therapy and Neurometabolism for Rare Neurological Diseases.

  • Edward Ginns

    Edward Ginns , MD, PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Neurogenetics; lysosomal storage disorders.

  • Matthew J. Gounis

    Matthew J. Gounis , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Radiology

    Director, New England Center for Stroke Research

    Focus: Minimally invasive neuroendovascular surgery

  • Heather L. Gray-Edwards

    Heather L. Gray-Edwards , DVM, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Radiology

    Focus: Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) gene therapy in animal models of Sandhoff and Tay-Sachs diseases

  • Paul Greer

    Paul Greer , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    Focus: Non-GPCR Chemosensors for Mammalian Olfaction

  • Alisha Gruntman

    Alisha Gruntman , DVM, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Pediatrics, Horae Gene Therapy Center

    Focus: Gene therapy in large animal models

  • Lisa Hall

    Lisa Hall , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Epigenetic Regulation and Nuclear Structure

  • Lawrence J. Hayward

    Lawrence J. Hayward , MD, PhD

    Professor of Neurology

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology

    Focus: Motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  • Christopher C. Hemond

    Christopher C. Hemond , MD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroimaging, Psychoneuroimmunology

  • Nils Henninger

    Nils Henninger , MD, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Stroke and brain injury.

     

  • Fiachra Humphries

    Fiachra Humphries , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Medicine

    Focus: Immunometabolism in neurodegeneration

  • Carolina Ionete

    Carolina Ionete , MD, PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune neurological diseases; and neurological complications of HIV infections.

     

  • Javier E. Irazoqui

    Javier E. Irazoqui , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Marcellette G. Williams Scholar

    Focus: Neural-immune communication; Comparative immunology.
    Lab website

  • Allan S. Jacobson

    Allan S. Jacobson , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Gerald L. Haidak, MD, and Zelda S. Haidak Professorship in Cell Biology (est. 1999)
    Focus: Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in model systems and genetic disorders

  • Mark D. Johnson

    Mark D. Johnson , MD, PhD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurological Surgery

    Senior Consulting Vice Provost for Mentorship, Leadership, and Transformation

    Maroun Semaan Chair in Neurosurgery
    Focus: Normal-pressure hydrocephalus; gliomas

  • Elinor K. Karlsson

    Elinor K. Karlsson , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Genomics and Computational Biology

    Dr. Eileen L. Berman and Stanley I. Berman Foundation Chair in Biomedical Research
    Focus:
    Comparative genomics and evolutionary biology in humans and dogs.

  • Allison May Keeler-Klunk

    Allison May Keeler-Klunk , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Pediatrics

    Focus: Gene Therapy, T-REGS and immune response to AAVs

  • David N. Kennedy

    David N. Kennedy , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Neuro-imaging and Neuroinformatics; functional MRI, morphometric analysis.

  • Anastasia Khvorova

    Anastasia Khvorova , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Remondi Family Chair in Biomedical Research
    Focus: Therapeutic gene silencing in vivo.

  • Dohoon Kim

    Dohoon Kim , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

    Focus: Identifying alterations in metabolic pathways supporting cancer cells (gliomas) and exploiting these alterations for therapeutic purposes.
    Lab website

  • Sohye Kim

    Sohye Kim , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Human brain development and maternal-infant bonding

  • Oliver King

    Oliver King , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, UMass Wellstone for FSHD Program

    Focus: Bioinformatic approaches in neurological diseases

  • William R. Kobertz

    William R. Kobertz , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Focus: Structure, Function and Modulation of Ion Channels.
    Lab Webpage

  • John Landers

    John Landers , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS.

  • Jeanne Lawrence

    Jeanne Lawrence , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics

    Leo P. and Thomas M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research
    Focus: Chromosome silencing, Down Syndrome, and Alzheimer's Disease
    Lab Web-page

     

  • Darren J. Lee

    Darren J. Lee , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences

    Focus: Autoimmune Uveitis

  • Elaine Lim

    Elaine Lim , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

    Focus: To understand the genetic mechanisms of complex neurological diseases (ASD and Alzheimer’s) through computational and statistical methods and experimental technology.
    Lab website

  • Qinglan Ling

    Qinglan Ling , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: Developing translational gene therapy for mitochondrial disease with neurological manifestations, such as Leigh syndrome.

  • Ryan W. Logan

    Ryan W. Logan , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Addiction, neuropsychiatric diseases and circadian rhythms  
    Lab Website: https://wickedneuro.com/

  • Lori J. Lorenz

    Lori J. Lorenz , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine

    Focus: Translational regulation in models of Fragile X Syndrome.

  • Elisabet Mandon

    Elisabet Mandon , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: The role of mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum in neurodegeneration and aging.
    Lab website

  • Gilles Martin

    Gilles Martin , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Drugs of abuse and memory; electrophysiology.

     

  • Beth A. McCormick

    Beth A. McCormick , PhD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair II
    Focus: Mucosal inflammation, host:pathogen interactions, and cancer biology.

  • Haley E. Melikian

    Haley E. Melikian , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Cocaine and antidepressant-sensitive monoamine transporters.

  • Stephen Miller

    Stephen Miller , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Focus: Illuminating biological processes with chemistry.

  • Richard P. Moser

    Richard P. Moser , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Pediatrics

    Focus: Adult brain tumors, stereotactic radiosurgery, translational research.

  • Mary Munson

    Mary Munson , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Assistant Vice Provost for Health Equity

    Focus: Regulation of vesicle targeting and fusion.

  • Sumeda Nandadasa

    Sumeda Nandadasa , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Pediatrics

    Focus: Primary cilia, hedgehog and Wnt signaling and extracellular matrix metalloproteinases

  • Ika Noviawaty

    Ika Noviawaty , MD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery

    Director, Epilepsy Service

    Focus: Epilepsy

  • Gary R. Ostroff

    Gary R. Ostroff , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Focus: Using small to macromolecular drug delivery to phagocytes to modulate inflammation and pathologies associated with infectious, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases.

  • Thoru Pederson

    Thoru Pederson , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Vitold Arnett Professorship in Cell Biology
    Focus: RNA traffic in eukaryotic cells, RNA processing, RNA-protein interactions, microRNAs.

     

  • Stephanie Puig

    Stephanie Puig , MS, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Chronic opioid use for the treatment of pain and prevention of side-effects and opioid addiction

  • Claudio Punzo

    Claudio Punzo , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, Horae Gene Therapy Center

    Focus: Neurodegeneration in the retina; retinitis pigmentosa.
    Lab Web-page

  • Ajit S. Puri

    Ajit S. Puri , MD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Radiology

    Director for Clinical Research, NeuroNexus Institute
    Director, Division of Neurointerventional Surgery
    Director, Neurointerventional Fellowship Program

    Focus: Stroke treatment using mechanical thrombectomy, an endovascular procedure that is performed in neurointerventional radiology.

  • Zaida G. Ramirez Ortiz

    Zaida G. Ramirez Ortiz , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology

    Focus: Scavenger receptors in inflammation and autoimmunology

  • Jillian Richmond

    Jillian Richmond , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Dermatology, Department of Neurology

    Focus: Immunophenotype in Multiple Sclerosis, Neuropsychiatric Lupus and other conditions, neuroimmune interactions in the skin

  • Joel Richter

    Joel Richter , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Program in Molecular Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Arthur F. Koskinas Chair in Neuroscience
    Focus: Translational control in meiosis, mitosis, and neuronal synaptic plasticity, Fragile X syndrome.

  • Ann Rittenhouse

    Ann Rittenhouse , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: Calcium Channels and Neuronal Plasticity.

  • Evgeny I. Rogaev

    Evgeny I. Rogaev , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Focus: Molecular genetic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases and dementia.

  • Max P. Rosen

    Max P. Rosen , MD, MPH

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Radiology

    UMass Memorial Chair in Radiology
    Focus: Radiology

  • Anthony Rothschild

    Anthony Rothschild , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Irving S. and Betty Brudnick Chair in Psychiatry
    Focus: Clinical Research in Affective Disorders and Sexual Dysfunction; Psychopharmacology.

  • Melissa Rotunno

    Melissa Rotunno , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Uncovering aberrant protein interactions in neurodegenerative diseases for biomarkers and therapeutic development.

  • Sean P. Ryder

    Sean P. Ryder , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Focus: Post-transcriptional regulation of maternal mRNA in development.
    Lab Webpage

  • Manojkumar Saranathan

    Manojkumar Saranathan , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Radiology

    Focus: Structural and Functional Neuroimaging, Image Processing

  • Dorothy P. Schafer

    Dorothy P. Schafer , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Biomedical Research
    Focus: Neuron-glia interactions regulating synaptic circuit development and plasticity.

  • Jean Pierre SchatzmannPeron

    Jean Pierre SchatzmannPeron , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Neuro-Immune Interactions; Neuropathogenesis of viral infection

  • Miguel S. Sena-Esteves

    Miguel S. Sena-Esteves , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, Department of Neurology, Horae Gene Therapy Center

    Focus: Preclinical gene therapy of neurological diseases and brain cancer.

  • Kara Smith

    Kara Smith , MD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology

    Focus: Parkinson’s disease, Movement disorders, biomarker development

  • Thomas Smith

    Thomas Smith , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Pathology

    Focus: Forensic neuropathology and CNS neoplasia.

  • Andrew Tapper

    Andrew Tapper , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry

    Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute
    Focus: Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in addiction and neurological disease.

  • Paul R. Thompson

    Paul R. Thompson , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Director, Small Molecule Screening Facility

  • Travis C. Thomson

    Travis C. Thomson , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Transposon regulation of neuromuscular junction plasticity

  • Summer B. Thyme

    Summer B. Thyme , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology

    Focus: Uncovering mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders using zebrafish

  • Michael Volkert

    Michael Volkert , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: Molecular and cellular functions of the OXR family of oxidation resistance genes in order to determine how they protect cells from oxidative stress induced DNA damage and cell death.

  • J. Matthias Walz

    J. Matthias Walz , MD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

    UMass Memorial Kaur Chair in Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine  
    Focus: Anesthesiology

  • Dan Wang

    Dan Wang , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Focus: AAV Gene Therapy for Genetic Diseases

  • Jonathan K. Watts

    Jonathan K. Watts , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Focus: Therapeutic gene silencing with chemically modified antisense oligonucleotides.

  • David R. Weaver

    David R. Weaver , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Executive Director, NeuroNexus Institute
    Director, Graduate Program in Neuroscience

    Focus: Molecular regulation and physiological impact of circadian rhythms.

  • Sarah K. Whitley

    Sarah K. Whitley , MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Autoimmune Therapeutics Institute, Department of Dermatology

    Focus: Skin barrier immunity; Hidradenitis Suppurativa

  • Danny Winder

    Danny Winder , PhD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research Chair
    Focus: Neural mechanisms of stress and addiction

  • Yang Xiang

    Yang Xiang , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Molecular and neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavior; light-evoked escape behavior.

  • Zuoshang Xu

    Zuoshang Xu , MD, PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, RNA Therapeutics Institute

    Focus: Mechanism and therapy of neurodegenerative diseases including FTD and ALS.

  • Hongwei Yang

    Hongwei Yang , MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurological Surgery

    Focus: Glioblastoma; Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

  • Eviatar Yemini

    Eviatar Yemini , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology

    Focus: Neural activity and behavioral changes during development
    Lab website

  • Kimberly A. Yonkers

    Kimberly A. Yonkers , MD

    Chair and Professor

    Programs: Department of Psychiatry

    Katz Family Chair in Psychiatry
    Focus: Mood disorders and substance use disorders in perinatal populations

  • Hong Zhang

    Hong Zhang , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Pediatrics

    Focus: Cancer; Chromosomal silencing and Trisomy 21

  • Jin Zhang

    Jin Zhang , PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurobiology, Program in Molecular Medicine

    Focus: Interplay of sensory systems and internal state; taste
    Lab website

  • Ronghua ZhuGe

    Ronghua ZhuGe , PhD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Microbiology

    Focus: Smooth muscle in health and disease.

  • Andrew W. Zimmerman

    Andrew W. Zimmerman , MD

    Professor

    Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics

    Focus: Pediatric Neurology; Autism

  • Jill Zitzewitz

    Jill Zitzewitz , PhD

    Associate Professor

    Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology

    Focus: Protein Misfolding and Disease.