Medical College of Wisconsin Neuroscience PhD Program Faculty and Research
Neurodegeneration and Neurotrauma
Neurodegenerative diseases including ALS, Parkinson’s Disease and Spinal Cord Injury are studied using stem cells, animal models and human tissues.

Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD
Professor

Matthew D. Budde, PhD
Associate Professor

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Lezi E, PhD
Assistant Professor

Allison D. Ebert, PhD
Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program

Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Frank A. Pintar, PhD
Founding Chair, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Neurosurgery

Scott S. Terhune, PhD
Professor

Matthew B. Veldman, PhD
Assistant Professor

Jordan Williams, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Neurosurgery
Neuroimaging, tissue to brain
State-of-the-art brain imaging is used to study language, vision, hearing, learning and memory, and brain diseases including cancer.

Jeffrey R. Binder, MD
Professor of Neurology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Biophysics; Director of Stroke and Neurobehavior Programs, Department of Neurology; Director of Language Imaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology

Joseph Carroll, PhD
Richard O. Schultz, MD / Ruth Works Professor of Ophthalmology Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biophysics, and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy Director, Advanced Ocular Imaging Program

Adam Greenberg, PhD
Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Education, School of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Director of the Sensory Neuroscience, Attention, and Perception Laboratory

Peter S. LaViolette, PhD, MS
Professor; Director, Quantitative Imaging Laboratory, Medical College of Wisconsin; Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences

Timothy B. Meier, PhD
Professor

Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
Professor
Cellular and Synaptic Communication
Neuronal Communication at the cellular level is studied using cutting-edge genetic and electrophysiological tools in order to dissect mechanisms of development and disease in the visual system, learning and memory, and addiction.

Shyam S. Chaurasia, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Ross Collery, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm
Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD
Assistant Professor

Sang H. Lee, PhD
Professor

Brian A. Link, PhD
Professor

Daniel M. Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy; Research Director

Qing-Song Liu, PhD
Professor

Wei Liu, PhD
Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis; Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program, Cancer Center; Director, Structural Biology Shared Resource (SBSR), Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Marcus Professor & Chair

John D. McCorvy, PhD
Associate Professor

Joel B. Miesfeld, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Xuelin Lou, PhD
Professor

Ramani Ramchandran, PhD
Professor
Function of Neural Systems in Normal and Disease States
Neural circuits and pathways that underlie essential physiological functions and their misregulation in disease are studied. These include sleep disruption, breathing, chronic stress, reward systems, hearing, touch sensation and chronic pain.

Carol Everson, PhD
Professor

Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering; Interim Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs and Development, Department of Neurology

Constanza Garcia Keller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA, FAPS
Professor, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering; Butenhoff Family Professor of Cardiovascular Research; Director, Comprehensive Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core

William Gross, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS
Assistant Professor

Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Matthew R. Hodges, PhD, FAPS
Professor and Eminent Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies

John R. Kirby, PhD
Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research

John Mantsch, PhD
Florence J. Williams Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Adriano Marchese, PhD
Professor; Program Director, Biochemistry Graduate Program; Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences (IDP)

Aaron Mickle, PhD
Associate Professor

Gary Mouradian, PhD
Assistant Professor

Pablo Nakagawa, PhD
Assistant Professor

Christopher M. Olsen, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Hernan G. Rey, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Kajana Satkunendrarajah, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Physiology

Miranda L. Scalabrino, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Curt D. Sigmund, PhD
James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center

Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD
Marvin Wagner Professor

Daochun Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor

Kenichiro Taniguchi, PhD
Associate Professor
