 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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