Thomas W. Abrams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-5837
Research: Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synaptic changes during learning.
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Edson X. Albuquerque, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 4l0-706-7333
Research: Effects of endogenous substances, toxins and clinically relevant drugs on nicotinic receptor function and expression, synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity in the brain.
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Bradley E. Alger
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-3350
Research: We study the 'brain's own marijuana', the endogenous system that uses the same receptors that marijuana affects, to regulate neuronal communication in the hippocampus. Our current focus is on LTP, LT
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Karen Anderson, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology
Phone: 410-328-7809
Research: Behavioral symptoms in patients with movement disorders (Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease); Deep brain stimulation therapy for movement disorders brain imaging; Clinical trials for neurologic
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Vanessa C.Z. Anseloni, Psy.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-3673
Research: My research focus is on understanding the neurobiology of neonatal pain.
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Guang Bai, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-2082
Research: Genetic Regulation of the Glutamate Receptor Genes; Signal Transduction and Nuclear Targets
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Linda Bambrick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology Research
Phone: 410-706-3418
Research: Free radical generation and neuroprotection.
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Rita Sloan Berndt, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 410-706-5874
Research: My research interests focus on the representation of language processes in the brain.
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Thomas Blanpied, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-4769
Research: Protein trafficking mechanisms underlying synaptic function and synapse plasticity.
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Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-3345
Research: My research concerns the regulation of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration and its role in normal and pathological cell signaling, especially in vascular smooth muscle (with a focus on the pathogenes
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Robert J. Bloch, Ph.D.
Director, Training Program in Membrane Biology
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: (410)706-3020
Research: Membrane Domains and Membrane Organization in Nerve and Muscle; Postsynaptic Membrane Domains; Organization of Intracellular Membranes; Organization of the Sarcolemma into Costameres; The Role of Obsc
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Neville Brookes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-3565
Research: Our laboratory studies how brain cells integrate and coordinate the various membrane transport activities controlling the fluxes and compartmentation of amino acid neurotransmitters and their metaboli
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Martha W. Burton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 410-706-8690
Research: My current research focuses on the functional neuroanatomy of language processing.
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Norman F. Capra, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-4219
Research: Research in my laboratory is directed toward understanding the neural basis for perception of jaw position and changes in jaw position (mandibular kinesthesia).
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Didier Depireux, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-1273
Research: Encoding of Dynamic Spectrum in Auditory Cortex
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Dean Dessem, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-7257
Research: neuronal circuits involved in proprioception and kinesthesia; neural control of movement
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Susan G. Dorsey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Organizational Systems and Adult Health
Phone: 410-706-7250
Research: Neurotrophin receptor signaling mechanisms underlying neuronal plasticity.
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Ronald Dubner, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Chairman
Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-0860
410-706-0865 FAX
Research: My research program through the years has focused on somatosensory mechanisms with an emphasis on pain.
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Greg Elmer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry, MPRC
Phone: 410-402-7576
Research: The primary objective of our laboratory is to better understand the behavior neurogenetics of drug abuse and schizophrenia and to understand the neurobiological factors integral to the comorbidity of
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Reha Erzurumlu, Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-7401
Research: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying axon-target interactions in mammalian sensory pathways
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Paul Fishman, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Alzheimer's Center
Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 410-605-7000
Research: Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Diseases and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases; Botulinum Toxin Treatments; Experimental Therapy Development; Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders
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Gary Fiskum, Ph.D.
Vice-Chair, Research
Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-4711
Research: Our research focuses on the molecular mechanisms responsible for neurodegeneration with emphasis on ischemic and traumatic brain injury and Parkinson's Disease.
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Douglas O. Frost, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Department of Anesthesiology
Phone: 410-706-0413
Research: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying normal neural development and the perturbation of these mechanisms in disease states or by drugs. We also study how these mechanisms can be harnessed for
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Sharon Gordon, D.D.S, M.P.H., Ph.D
Associate Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-1656
Research: My research interest is injury and its clinical sequela-pain and wound healing-and the interaction of the inflammatory response and nervous system in pain.
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Todd Gould, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
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Mood and Anxiety Program
Phone: 410-706-5585
Research: My research uses molecular, cellular, and behavioral approaches to study the pharmacology of psychotropic medications and the underlying pathophysiology of mood disorders.
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Joel D. Greenspan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-2027
Research: Investigating the neural processes underlying human somesthetic perception, including pain
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John Hamlyn, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-3479
Research: In contemporary thinking, our research might be termed: OUABAINOMICS.
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Gloria E. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-2438
Research: The research in Dr. Hoffman's laboratory uses brain systems regulating endocrine and autonomic function as model systems for studying the processing of exictatory stimuli and consequent stimulus-trans
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Henry H. Holcomb, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiarty, MPRC
Phone: 410-402-6817
Research: The primary focus of my funded work concerns the question of perceptual learning in volunteers with schizophrenia.
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M. Samir Jafri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology
Phone: 410-706-2384
Research: 1) Organotypic nigrostriatal cultures to study neurodegeneration and neuroprotection 2) Translational neurosurgical project using novel optical imaging to target stem cell and gene therapy delivery.
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Susan I. V. Judge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 410-706-4481
Research: Biophysical and molecular studies of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels as potential therapeutic targets in neurodegenerative diseases (focus on multiple sclerosis).
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Joseph Kao, Ph.D.
Professor
Medical Biotechnology Center and Department of Physiology
Phone: (410) 706-4167
Research: Developing Molecular Probes for Physiology and Neuroscience Research;
Calcium Regulation of Neuronal Excitability;
In Vivo Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging (EPRI)
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Sergei Karnup, MD, PhD, DSc.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-3563
Research: My principal research interests are cell-to-cell interactions and integrating mechanisms in the brain microcircuits.
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Asaf Keller, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-7307
Research: Our laboratory's research focuses on information processing by local neuronal networks.
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James I. Koenig, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
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Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Phone: 410-402-7319
Research: The primary focus of my research is the neurobiology of stress.
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Bruce K. Krueger, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry
Phone: 410-706-5065
Research: The principal research interests of this laboratory are the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie brain development and cognitive behavior.
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W. Jonathan Lederer, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Professor
and Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-8181
Research: Ca2+ signaling in living cells.
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Iris Lindberg, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-4778
Research: Protein Structure-Function Efforts; The Cell Biology of the Convertase-binding Protein Interaction; Proteomics of Neuropeptide Production
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David Litwack, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-8824
Research: Neurogenesis, cell migration, and axon guidance during development of the pontine nuclei
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Paul W. Luther, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-4166
Research: How nerve and muscle cells form the synaptic membranes that enable them to communicate
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Frank L. Margolis, Ph.D.
Graduate Program Director, Program in Neuroscience
Professor
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-8913
Research: One of the major goals of my laboratory is to identify and characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for regulating olfactory neuron gene expression, and to learn how they contribute to the fo
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Margaret M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies
Professor
Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry
Phone: 410-706-2655
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Mary McKenna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
Phone: 410-706-1990
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Istvan Merchenthaler, MD, PhD, DSc
Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Anatomy/Neurobiology
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Gender Based Epidemiology
Phone: 410-706-1350
Research: The role of estrogen and estrogen receptors as central regulators of reproduction and their role in neuroprotection (focal and global ischemia, aging, Alzheimer's disease).
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Andrea Meredith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-5991
Research: Contribution of specific ion channels to information encoding in the brain and physiology. In my lab, we combine the genetic manipulation of ion channels with electrophysiology and behavior.
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Hiroaki (MISO) Misono, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Lab website
Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-7168
Research: Dynamic regulation of neuronal ion channels
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Jessica Mong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-4295
Research: My laboratory is interested in the effects of gonadal steroids on neuronal-glial interactions in the developing and adult brain
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Mervyn J. Monteiro, Ph.D.
Professor
Medical Biotechnology Center & Neurology
Phone: 410-706-8132
Research: Molecular genetics of proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases.
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Steven D. Munger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-5851
Research: Molecular basis of odor and taste transduction; structure/function of odor and taste receptors
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Norbert R. Myslinski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-7258
Research: Sensory-motor integration of the human oral-facial region especially pain and mastication.
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Patricio O'Donnell, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-6411
Research: Our research is directed to understanding the neurobiology of schizophrenia and related neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as on the neurobiological changes during adolescence. We specifically focus
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Teodor Postolache, M.D.
Director, Mood and Anxiety Program
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
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Mood and Anxiety Program
Phone: (410)706-2323
Research: The main focus of our group is the interaction between the environment and endogenous biological rhythms.
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Elizabeth Powell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-8189
Research: Forebrain development and the roles of inhibitory neurons in cognition and behavior, particularly epilepsy and autism
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Adam Puche, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-3530
Research: changes in morphology, electrophysiology, and gene expression in these neurons as they develop using neuroanatomical, neurophysiology and molecular biology techniques
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William Randall, Ph.D.
Molecular Medicine Track Leader, Molecular Toxicology and Pharmacology
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-7530
Research: Gene expression, molecular neurobiology of cholinergic proteins, synapse formation, synaptic protein targeting, synaptic protein turnover, cytoskeletal assembly of synaptic proteins, transcriptional c
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James A. Reggia, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 301-405-2686
Research: Our research group focuses on studying and understanding 1) the underlying principles of biological computation, and how these principles can be adopted or modified to extend contemporary computer sci
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Ke Ren, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences
Phone: 410-706-3250
Research: The mechanisms that underlie the development and maintenance of persistent pain and hyperalgesia
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Mark Rizzo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-2421
Research: Regulation of insulin secretion by polypeptide hormones; receptor tryosine kinase signal transduction
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Jin Y. Ro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-6027
Research: To elucidate neurophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms of acute and persistent craniofacial muscle pain
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Courtney Robertson, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Phone: 410-328-6957
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Terry B. Rogers, Ph.D.
Director of MD/PhD Program
Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 410-706-3169
Research: We study the fundamental properties of heart cells and the impact of intracellular signaling mechanisms on the regulation of cardiac myocyte function.
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James Russell, M.D.
Director Neuromuscular Division
Associate Professor
Departments of Neurology, Anatomy and Neurobiology
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Neuromuscular Division
Phone: 410-706-6689
Research: Dr. Russell's laboratory focus is (1) understanding molecular mechanisms regulating mitochondria, signaling, and survival in neurons and glia (2) development of new therapies for neuropathy and neurod
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Martin F. Schneider, Ph.D.
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Muscle BiologySchool of Medicine and UMBC College of Engineering
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phone: 410-706-7812
Research: Generation of the Ca2+ transient in skeletal muscle; Molecular basis of skeletal muscle fiber types;Calcium signalling in neurons; Calcium homeostasis in dystrophic muscle fibers
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Geoff Schoenbaum, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-3814
Research: The lab studies the cognitive basis of goal-directed behavior using behavioral, pharmacological and neurophysiological techniques in rats.
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Robert Schwarcz, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Neuroscience MPRC
Professor
Department of Psychiatry, MPRC
Phone: (410) 402-7635
Research: My laboratory is concerned with the molecular and cellular mechanisms which underlie nerve cell death in the central nervous system.
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Paul D. Shepard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
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The Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Phone: 410-402-7753
Research: The research conducted in our lab focuses on the physiological properties of midbrain dopamine neurons and their role in psychiatric and neurological disorders.
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Michael T. Shipley, Ph.D.
Chairman
Director, Program in Neuroscience
Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP, Distinguished Professor
Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-706-3590
Research: Our research centers on understanding the organization, function and development of neural networks.
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J. Marc Simard, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurosurgery, Physiology and Pathology
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Phone: 410-328-0850
Research: The laboratory is dedicated to studying the regulation of ion channels in the two major systems that support central neuronal function: astrocytes and cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells.
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Malle Tagamets, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Deptartment of Psychiatry, MPRC
Phone: 410-402-6028
Research: Development of large - scale quantitative models of human brain imaging data
Experimental fMRI research into reading and language
fMRI studies of semantic disturbances in schizophrenia
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Cha-Min Tang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Phone: 410-706-2347
Research: Our lab has two areas of interest: dendritic function and developing better tools to study brain function.
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Scott M. Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-5817
Research: Synaptic transmission in the CNS
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Leonardo Tonelli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
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Mood and Anxiety Program
Phone: 410-706-2323
Research: The focus of my research is to determine the contribution of inflammatory factors in major depression and suicide.
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Richard J. Traub, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-5117
Research: Spinal processing of visceral pain: sex differences and the role of gonadal hormones; differential modulation of spinal circuitry underlying pain and hyperalgesia.
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Matthew Trudeau, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-5551
Research: My lab investigates the molecular specializations underlying ion channel function in potassium channels activated by voltage and cation channels activated by intracellular cyclic nucleotides.
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Ashiwel S. Undie, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neuropharmacology Group
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Phone: 410-706-7358
Research: Current research interests in the Neuropharmacology Laboratory are centered on Cellular Signal Transduction and bridge the broad areas of Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Genomics.
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Michael W. Vogel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry, MPRC
Phone: 410-402-7756
Research: Basic Developmental Neurobiology Research; Preclinical Schizophrenia Research
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Jordan E. Warnick, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Student Education & Research
Professor
Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-3026
Research: Medical Education, Pharmacology, Toxicology
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Daniel Weinreich, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-5833
Research: Our research goal is to understand how the immune and nervous systems communicate with each other at the cellular level.
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Withrow Gil Wier, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology
Phone: 410-706-3349
Research: Vascular biology; calcium signaling in smooth muscle; alpha adrenoceptors in smooth muscle; purinergic receptors in smooth muscle
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George Wittenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Laboratory for Research on Arm Function and Therapy (RAFT)
Assistant Professor
Neurology, VA Baltimore GRECC
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Rehabilitation
Phone: 410-605-7000 x5413
Research: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional imaging; cortical reorganization following stroke; designing/testing new methods for neurorehabilitation.
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Austin Yang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Anatomy and Neurobiology
Phone: 410-328-7588
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Paul J. Yarowsky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Phone: 410-706-3134
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Yonathan Zohar, Ph.D.
Director
Professor
Center of Marine Biotechnology
Phone: 410-234-8803
Research: Neuroendocrinology and physiology of reproduction in marine models; Functional significance of GnRH multiplicity in vertebrates
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