- Jose M. Barral, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, Biochemistry& Molecular Biology and Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics
- Protein folding mechanisms in health and disease.
- Krishna M. Bhat, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
- Darren F. Boehning, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Apoptotic regulatory mechanisms; molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
- Susan M. Carlton, Ph.D.
- Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Peripheral nociceptive mechanisms.
- Premkumar Christadoss, M.D.
- Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
- Cellular and molecular immunopathogenesis of neuromuscular disease (myasthenia gravis).
- Jin Mo Chung, Ph.D.
- Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Somatosensory system; mechanisms of neuropathic pain; cell signaling and reactive oxygen species.
- Kathryn A. Cunningham, Ph.D.
- Professor and Vice Chair, Pharmacology and Toxicology; Director, Center for Addiction Research
- Drug abuse and addiction biology; eating disorders and obesity; neuropsychopharmacology; translational research and drug discovery in psychiatry; mechanisms of action of psychostimulants; circuitry/regulation of serotonin systems.
- Douglas DeWitt, Ph.D.
- Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Charles R. Allen Research Laboratories
- Experimental traumatic brain injury; cerebral vascular regulation.
- Kelly T. Dineley, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Neurology
- Molecular mechanisms of cognitive (hippocampal) dysfunction in early versus late Alzheimer's disease; nicotine addiction with specific emphasis on nicotine-context associations and the molecular mechanisms underlying their extinction.
- Benjamin B. Gelman, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor, Pathology
- Mononuclear phagocytes in the nervous system; AIDS.
- Thomas A. Green, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Molecular mechanisms underlying addiction- and depression-related behavior; role of environment in altering these molecular targets in brain reward regions subsequent to stress or cocaine exposure; genomic strategies to identify new molecular targets mediating these phenotypes and construct novel viral vectors to manipulate these proteins in vivo and alter subsequent behavior related to addiction or depression.
- Owen P. Hamill, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Membrane channel regulation of tumor cell migration and invasiveness.
- Jonathan D. Hommel, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center for Addiction Research
- Molecular mechanisms of food addiction, neuropeptide control of eating behavior, drug discovery, obesity. Techniques: gene therapy, neuronal tracing, animal models of food craving and food reward.
- Li-Yen Mae Huang, Ph.D.
- Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Mechanisms of receptor sensitization after injury; opioid receptor gene transfer.
- Claire E. Hulsebosch, Ph.D.
- Director of Mission Connect, Vice-Chair and Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Central nervous system trauma; neurotrophins; stem cell transplants and mechanisms of central pain.
- George Jackson, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor, Neurology and Director, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Kenneth M. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D.
- Professor and Graduate Program Director, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection; animal models of schizophrenia and drug abuse; evaluation of novel chemicals for therapy in schizophrenia, depression, narcolepsy, and drug abuse.
- Myoung-Goo Kang, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Glutamate receptor; AMPA receptor; synaptic plasticity; learning and memory; pain.
- Rakez Kayed, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Neurology
- Neurodegenerative diseases associated with amyloid, such as Alzheimer`s (AD), Parkinson's (PD), Type II diabetes, amyloidosis and others; cellular mechanism of tau/amyloid oligomer formation and toxicity; role of cell membrane and receptors in amyloid pathogenesis; tau oligomers and their role in AD and related tauopathies; imunotherapy for the treatment of AD and PD; development of methods for early diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases; screening for drug like molecules that interfere with different amyloid species.
- Fernanda Laezza, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying modulation of ion channels in relationship to intrinsic excitability, synaptic transmission and plasticity; regulation of intrinsic excitability and synaptic transmission by intracellular fibroblast growth factors (iFGFs); ataxias and neurodegenerative diseases.
- Danxia Liu, Ph.D.
- Professor, Neurology
- Reactive species and oxidative damage in Neuronal degeneration and death in CNS; proteomics.
- Tomoko Makishima, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology
- Genetic hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction; apoptosis in the inner ear.
- Walter J. Meyer, III, M.D.
- Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Relationship between psychologic and psychiatric problems and physical illness; management of pain and anxiety in the burn survivor.
- Javier Navarro, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Molecular mechanisms of G protein-coupled receptors; X-ray crystallography.
- Olivera B. Nesic, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Spinal cord injury; glial response to injury; pain.
- Volker E. Neugebauer, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology, Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program
- Neural mechanisms of emotional-affective and cognitive brain functions and disorders; pain mechanisms.
- Carol Nilsson, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology; CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
- Intracellular signaling pathways in gliablastoma (GBM) and glioma cancer stem cells (gCSCs); mass spectrometry imaging of brain tumors; molecular responses of GBM and gCSCs to radiation and chemotherapy
- J. Regino Perez-Polo, Ph.D.
- Professor and Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine; Shriners Hospital for Children
- Responses to acute and chronic trauma to central nervous system.
- Donald S. Prough, M.D.
- Professor and Chair, Anesthesiology
- Response to traumatic brain injury; zinc neurotoxicity.
- David K. Rassin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Pediatrics; Associate Dean, Office of Continuing Education
- Nutrition and neurochemistry of amino acids during early development of term and preterm infants.
- Giulio Taglialatela, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Neurodegeneration and apoptosis in the aged CNS and Alzheimer's disease.
- Shao-Jun Tang, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Role of synaptic Wnt signaling in normal and disease CNS.
- Yogesh Wairkar, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, and Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
- Molecular mechanisms of synapse development, synapses and neurodegeneration.
- Cheryl S. Watson, Ph.D.
- Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Mechanisms of steroid actions.
- Ping Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Human stem cell biology; stem cell therapy and gene therapy for neurological disorders.
- Emeritus & Off-Campus Faculty
- Tetsuo Ashizawa, M.D.
- Professor, Neurology
- Clinical neurogenetics and neurodegenerative disorders with genome instability.
- James E. Blankenship, Ph.D.
- Professor Emeritus, Ashbel Smith Distinguished Professor
- Control of locomotion and neuroendocrine systems in Aplysia.
- Richard E. Coggeshall, M.D.
- Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Spinal cord regeneration
- Manning J. Correia, Ph.D.
- Professor Emeritus, Otolaryngology
- Ion Channels, channelopathy, and hair cells
- Ronita L. Cromwell, Ph.D.
- Senior Research Scientist, Universities Space Research Association, Project Scientist for the NASA Flight Analogs Project
- Flight Analogs Project examines ground-based analogs that simulate the affects of spaceflight and ncludes the ongoing bed rest studies at UTMB.
- William D. Willis Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
- Professor Emeritus, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Spinal cord mechanisms of pain and analgesia.