NeuroRestorative Therapy

Sarah Ackerman, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-4827
- Email: sarah.ackerman@wustl.edu
Understanding how glia shape developmental and pathological plasticity

Asher Albertson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-2999
- Email: albertsona@wustl.edu
Molecular, cellular, and network mechanisms of cerebral recovery after severe injury

Laura Campisi, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Email: campisi@wustl.edu
Understanding the role of T cells in ALS-4

Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Biomedical Engineering and WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-454-7742
- Email: hongchen@wustl.edu
Innovative focused ultrasound techniques to understand brain function and brain diseases

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

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

Naomi Dirckx, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Orthopedic Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-8597
- Email: dirckx@wustl.edu
The role of citrate transport in epilepsy

Claudia Han, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-273-2288
- Email: claudiah@wustl.edu
Microglia identity in development and aging

Michael Holtzman, MD
Selma and Herman Seldin Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-8970
- Email: mjholtzman@wustl.edu
Brain biology and disease

Masatoshi Inoue, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Radiology
- Email: inoue.m@wustl.edu
Understanding how the brain processes sensory cues to drive complex behaviors

Albert Kim, MD, PhD
August A. Busch Jr. Professor of Neurological Surgery, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-362-8443
- Email: alberthkim@wustl.edu
Signaling pathways in brain development and malignant brain tumors

Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
BJC Investigator, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor, WashU Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-273-2288
- Email: kipnis@wustl.edu
Complex interactions between the immune system and the central nervous system (CNS) in health and disease

Terrance Kummer, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-2999
- Email: kummert@wustl.edu
Mechanisms of neuronal injury in acute brain trauma and its link to neurodegeneration

Eric Landsness, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurology
- Email: landsness@wustl.edu
Connection between plasticity-dependent mechanisms for stroke recovery and sleep-dependent plasticity

Eric Lenze, MD
Wallace and Lucille K. Renard Professor and Chair, WashU Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-362-1671
- Email: lenzee@wustl.edu
Treatment of anxiety disorders and depression in older adults

Timothy Miller, MD, PhD
David Clayson Professor, WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-8169
- Email: miller.t@wustl.edu
New, effective, and safe treatments for neurodegenerative diseases

Jeffrey Millman, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-3268
- Email: jmillman@wustl.edu
Large-scale culture of human stem cells in reactors, producing billions of cells in small clusters

Camilo Molina, MD
Assistant Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-362-3570
- Email: cmolina@wustl.edu
Understanding and treatment of acute spinal cord injury (SCI)

Andrew Nguyen, PhD
Assistant Professor, SLU Medicine
- Phone: 314-977-5308
- Email: andy.d.nguyen@health.slu.edu
Strategies for increasing progranulin levels as potential therapies for progranulin-deficient FTD

Grace Niziolek, MD
Assistant Professor, WashU Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-5298
- Email: gracen@wustl.edu
Exploring the mechanisms of blood brain barrier dysfunction that lead to chronic neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

Cynthia Ortinau, MD
Assistant Professor, WashU Pediatrics
- Phone: 314-273-6002
- Email: ortinau_c@wustl.edu
Neurological and neurodevelopmental consequences of congenital heart disease (CHD)

Wilson (Zack) Ray, MD
Henry G & Edith R Schwartz Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-362-3570
- Email: rayz@wustl.edu
Development of innovative technology targeting neuroprosthetic interfaces

Maria Remedi, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-747-0437
- Email: mremedi@wustl.edu
Understanding the Role of Potassium Channels in Physiology and Disease: Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Brain pathologies

Jennifer Strahle, MD
Associate Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-273-1665
- Email: strahlej@wustl.edu
Developmental Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulation Disorders

Fumihiko Urano, MD, PhD
Samuel E. Schechter Professor, WashU Medicine
- Phone: 314-362-8683
- Email: urano@wustl.edu
Therapies for Wolfram syndrome; role of endoplasmic reticulum in neurodegeneration

Hiroko Yano, PhD
Associate Professor, WashU Neurosurgery
- Phone: 314-747-6012
- Email: yanoh@wustl.edu
Molecular pathogenesis of neurodegeneration; Epigenetic regulation in Huntington’s disease

Andrew Yoo, PhD
Professor, WashU Developmental Biology
- Phone: 314-362-1814
- Email: yooa@wustl.edu
MicroRNA-mediated neuronal reprogramming and chromatin remodeling

Guoyan Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor, WashU Genetics and WashU Neurology
- Phone: 314-273-9045
- Email: gzhao@wustl.edu
Transcriptional Regulation and Neurological Disease