 Ayanabha Chakraborti, PhD
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Assistant Research Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Gut-brain axis and mood disorders, sex differences in stress-related disorders, metabolic syndrome and neuropsychiatric comorbidities Contact: @email
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 Priyanka Gupta, PhD
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Assistant Research Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Neuroendocrine tumors, mitochondrial dysfunction, cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) signal transduction Contact: @email
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 Haijiang Cai, PhD
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Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Areas of Interest: Neural circuits of animal behaviors, with a focus on understanding how the neural circuits regulate feeding and emotional behaviors, using optogenetics, pharmacogenetics, electrophysiology, molecular, and behavior analysis tools Contact: @email
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 Bradley Greger, PhD
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Associate Research Professor
Affiliation: Arizona State University Areas of Interest: Brain, neuroscience, data analysis, machine learning, neural electrophysiology, neural engineering, neural prosthetics, neuromodulation, neurophysiology, neuroprosthetics Contact: @email
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 Theresa Currier Thomas, PhD
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Associate Research Professor
Affiliation: Phoenix Children’s Areas of Interest: Traumatic brain injury, translational neurotrauma, sex differences, neuroendocrinology, neurochemistry, histology Contact: @email
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 Matt Huentelman, PhD
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Associate Research Professor
Affiliation: Translational Genomics Research Institute Areas of Interest: Neuroscience, genomics, biomarkers Contact: @email
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 Ronald Hammer, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia, drug abuse, and dependence, chronic stress Contact: @email
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 Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD
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Research Professor
Affiliation: Phoenix VA Health Care System Areas of Interest: Traumatic brain Injury, neuroinflammation, neuroanatomy Contact: @email
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 Roberta Diaz
Brinton, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Areas of Interest: Mechanisms underlying the risk of Alzheimer’s during female brain aging, sex differences in mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s, regeneration and repair mechanisms to regenerate the Alzheimer’s brain Contact: @email Lab website
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 Patrick Pirrotte, PhD
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Assistant Research Professor
Affiliation: Translational Genomics Research Institute Areas of Interest: Biomarker discovery and validation pipelines, with specific interests in high-throughput profiling of post-translational modifications Contact: @email
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 Ashley Stokes, PhD
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Assistant Research Professor
Affiliation: Barrow Neurological Institute Areas of Interest: Neurological disorders, magnetic resonance imaging, imaging biomarkers, Alzheimer's disease Contact: @email Lab website
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 Konrad E. Zinsmaier, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Areas of Interest: Understanding molecular mechanisms that facilitate synaptic function and plasticity, and mechanisms that protect synapses from neurodegeneration Contact: @email
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 Shenfeng Qiu, PhD
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Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Neurodevelopmental disorders, epilepsy, electrophysiology, developmental neurobiology, brain circuits, autism Contact: @email
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 Deveroux Ferguson, PhD
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Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Transcriptomics, neurodegenerative diseases, gene-environment interactions and epigenetics, developmental, cell and molecular biology, depression Contact: @email Lab website
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 Carol Barnes, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Science Areas of Interest: Behavioral and systems neuroscience, aging, memory, hippocampus Contact: @email
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 Ayman Fanous, MD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Intersection of clinical psychiatry, genetics-genomics, and precision medicine Contact: @email
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 Rayna Gonzales, PhD
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Associate Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Vascular inflammation, vascular biology, stroke, psychiatric disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular disorders, cell signaling, cardiovascular diseases, cardiovascular biology Contact: @email
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 Jeffrey Kordower, PhD
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Research Professor
Affiliation: Arizona State University Areas of Interest: The study of gene and stem cell therapies, disease pathogenesis including the morphological and molecular changes during the course of neurodegeneration, learning and memory, and aging Contact: @email
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 Brad Racette, MD
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Professor
Affiliation: Barrow Neurological Institute Areas of Interest: Manganese neurotoxicity, environmental risk factors for Parkinson’s disease, and administrative data studies of Parkinson’s disease and other neurologic diseases Contact: @email
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 Rita Sattler, PhD
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Associate Research Professor
Affiliation: Barrow Neurological Institute Areas of Interest: Elucidation of disease pathways in neurodegenerative disorders including, but not exclusively, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) Contact: @email Lab website
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 Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Her research investigates the hypothesis that immediate early genes mediate the interaction of environmental stress and genetic predisposition, to influence the development of psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia and mood disorders Contact: @email Lab website
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 Robert Wagner Bina, MD
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Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: General neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, functional neurosurgery, ethics, neurotrauma, neuropsychiatric surgery Contact: @email
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 Peter Nakaji, MD
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Professor and Chair
Affiliation: Banner – University Medical Center Areas of Interest: Application of fluorescence technologies to cerebrovascular surgery, neuro-oncology, and neuropathology Contact: @email
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 Eric Reiman, MD
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CEO Banner Research
Affiliation: Banner – University Medical Center Areas of Interest: Brain imaging, blood-based biomarkers, APOE and genomics research, the unusually early detection, tracking, and study of Alzheimer's disease, the accelerated evaluation of Alzheimer's prevention therapies, and new models of research collaboration and clinical care Contact: @email
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 Pierre Tariot, MD
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Research Professor
Affiliation: Banner – University Medical Center Areas of Interest: Care and study of people with and at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, with special emphasis on design and implementation of clinical trials for prevention and treatment, development of biomarkers, measurement and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of dementia and demonstration of effective dementia care Contact: @email
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 Todd Vanderah, PhD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Areas of Interest: Mechanisms of cancer pain, neuronal integration in pain pathways, neurochemical release during conditions of neuropathy, neuronal plasticity, opioid receptor pharmacology, and novel targets for drug discovery Contact: @email
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 Frederic Zenhausern, PhD, MBA
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Encompass multiple scientific themes combining engineering and medicine to develop platform technologies with global impact for improving human life and the delivery systems of more comprehensive and personalized cares Contact: @email
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 Andrei Alexandrov, MD
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Professor
Affiliation: University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix Areas of Interest: Advanced cerebral vascular ultrasound testing, including transcranial doppler, emboli detection, vaso-motor reactivity testing, bubble test for right to left shunts, as well as assessment of collateral and carotid plaque typing to individualize stroke treatment and prevention strategies Contact: @email
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