| Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology
Research Interest:
Molecular biology of programmed cell death.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Molecular development of the eye and inner ear; anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) and developmental glaucoma; congenital deafness and vestibular dysfunction.
| Associate Professor, Ophthalmology
Research Interests:
Neurobiology of glaucoma, molecular processes that lead to retinal ganglion cell death.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics
Research Interest:
The molecular basis of human diseases, including but not limited to the most common single-gene cause of intellectual disability and autism, Fragile X Syndrome, and the development of therapeutics.
Professor, Biomedical Genetics, Neuroscience
Research Interest:
Identification of different stem and precursor cell pools in CNS that may be critical for cell replacement therapies or are targets of insults that lead to developmental pathologies.
Professor, Department of Medicine , Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Research Interest:
Integrative Physiology.
| Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Neuro stem cell biology and medicine, developing pharmacological and cell based approaches to peripheral and spinal cord injury.
Alexander R. Paciorkowski, M.D.
| Associate Professor - Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
tRNA biogenesis, function and quality control; intellectual disability due to deficiencies in tRNA modifications.
| Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics (SMD), Department of Biology RC (RC), Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Neural circuit development and function; Genetic control of behavior; Sex differences in neurobiology.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interests:
Astrocyte development in normal and pathological conditions, role of astrocytes in modulating response to injury or stress, utility of glial precursor cells and their astrocytic progeny for cell transplantation therapy.
| Associate Professor, Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Understanding the genetic, cell biological and molecular basis for age-driven proteostatic deterioration.
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Research Interest:
Using patient-derived human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to study the molecular mechanism of specific retinal and neurological diseases and applying that knowledge to pharmacologically target certain retinal disorders in patient-derived cells.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science A&S (RC)
Research Interest:
Signaling mechanisms linking neuronal activity and gene expression.
Professor, Department of Neurology, Saunders Family Distinguished Professor in Neuromuscular Research - Department of Neurology (SMD), Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests:
Neurogenetics, experimental therapeutics, repeat expansion diseases.