Hope Center Faculty Members are scientists and physician scientists on the Medical and Danforth campuses and at neighboring institutions, whose research programs are consistent with the Hope Center mission.
John Cirrito, PhD
Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-1664
- Email: cirritoj@wustl.edu
Relationship between synaptic activity and amyloid-beta metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease
Sharlee Climer, PhD
Assistant Professor, UMSL Mathematics and Computer Science
- Phone: 314-516-4985
- Email: climers@umsl.edu
Development of combinatorial methods for the identification of patterns in genetic data
Marco Colonna, MD
Robert Rock Belliveau MD Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-0368
- Email: mcolonna@wustl.edu
Innate immune responses in neurodegeneration
Jonathan Cooper, PhD
Professor, WashU Pediatrics
- Phone: 314-273-9066
- Email: cooperjd@wustl.edu
Pathogenesis and Experimental Therapies for Lysosomal Storage Disorders
Bryan Copits, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Anesthesiology
- Phone: 314-362-8795
- Email: bcopits@wustl.edu
Somatosensory circuit assembly
Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD
Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-6254
- Email: jcorbo@wustl.edu
Transcriptional regulatory networks in photoreceptor development, evolution, and disease
Meaghan Creed, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Anesthesiology
- Phone: 314-747-5754
- Email: meaghan.creed@wustl.edu
Neuromodulation of neural circuit function
Anne Cross, MD
Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-3293
- Email: crossa@wustl.edu
Neuroimmunology related to multiple sclerosis
Carlos Cruchaga, PhD
Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-286-0546
- Email: cruchagac@wustl.edu
Genetic and multi-omic approaches to identify novel variants, genes and pathways
Jianmin Cui, PhD
Professor, WashU Biomedical Engineering
- Phone: 314-935-7623
- Email: jcui@wustl.edu
Molecular basis of bioelectricity and related diseases in nervous and cardiovascular systems; ion channel function and modulation; discovery of drugs that target ion channels
Ralph Dacey, MD
Henry G & Edith Schwartz Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-362-3571
- Email: daceyr@wustl.edu
Regulatory mechanisms of the cerebrovascular microcirculation
Mai Dang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6120
- Email: mai@wustl.edu
Defining the functional heterogeneity of microglia and macrophages in pediatric brain tumors
Albert (Gus) Davis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-273-7763
- Email: albert.a.davis@wustl.edu
Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of protein aggregation and neurodegeneration in Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies
Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD
Alan A and Edith L Wolff Professor, WashU Developmental Biology
- Phone: 314-362-9866
- Email: diantonio@wustl.edu
Axonal biology in development and disease
Patricia Dickson, MD
Centennial Professor, WashU Pediatrics
- Phone: 314-454-6093
- Email: pdickson@wustl.edu
Pathogenesis and therapy development for central nervous system disease due to mucopolysaccharidosis