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.
Naomi Dirckx, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Orthopedic Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-8597
- Email: dirckx@wustl.edu
The role of citrate transport in epilepsy
Abhinav Diwan, MD
Charlie W. Shaeffer, M.D. Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-1984
- Email: adiwan@wustl.edu
Regulation of Lysosome function in Cellular Physiology and Pathology
Sergej Djuranovic, PhD
Professor, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology
- Phone: 314-362-8936
- Email: sergej.djuranovic@wustl.edu
Molecular mechanisms of translational control
Gerald Dorn, MD
Philip & Sima K Needleman Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-3167
- Email: gdorn@wustl.edu
Pink-parkin signaling and mitochondrial quality control
Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6006
- Email: dosenbachn@wustl.edu
Use-driven brain network plasticity in children with brain injury
Joseph Dougherty, PhD
Professor, WashU Genetics
- Phone: 314-286-0752
- Email: jdougherty@wustl.edu
Identification of genes and cell types responsible for neurological disorders in humans
Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Genetics/WashU Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
- Email: gabor@wustl.edu
Metabolic-epigenetic interactions in the healthy and diseased brain
Alex Evers, MD
Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor, WashU Anesthesiology
- Phone: 314-362-8557
- Email: eversa@wustl.edu
Molecular mechanisms of anesthetics in the nervous system
Susan Farr, PhD
Professor, SLU Internal Medicine
- Phone: 314-977-6084
- Email: susan.farr@health.slu.edu
Age-related neurodegeneration leading to dementia
Thomas Foutz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6120
- Email: tfoutz@wustl.edu
Treatment of refractory epilepsies using neurostimulation methods, including deep brain and responsive neural stimulation devices
Liberty Francois-Moutal, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, SLU Pharmacology and Physiology
Synaptic delivery of mRNA in neurodegeneration and painful neuropathies
Carl Frieden, PhD
Professor, WashU Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
- Phone: 314-362-3342
- Email: friedenc@wustl.edu
Protein folding, structure
Harrison Gabel, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-362-9814
- Email: gabelh@wustl.edu
Exploration of functions for neuron-specific regulators of gene expression, leveraging genes and mechanisms implicated in human neurologic disease to point us toward critical pathways in the brain
Gilbert Gallardo, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-7813
- Email: g.gallardo@wustl.edu
Discovering mechanisms of neurodegeneration for potential therapeutic intervention
Stefanie Geisler, MD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-273-3087
- Email: geislers@wustl.edu
Mechanisms of axonal degeneration in peripheral neuropathies