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.
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Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
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Matthew D. Budde, PhD
Associate Professor
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Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
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Lezi E, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Allison D. Ebert, PhD
Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program
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Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
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Frank A. Pintar, PhD
Founding Chair, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Neurosurgery
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Scott S. Terhune, PhD
Professor
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Matthew B. Veldman, PhD
Assistant Professor
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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.
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Jeffrey R. Binder, MD
Vice Chair for Research, Professor of Neurology, Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Professor of Biophysics, Director of Stroke and Neurobehavior Programs, Department of Neurology, Director of Language Imaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology
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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
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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
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Peter S. LaViolette, PhD, MS
Professor; Director, Quantitative Imaging Laboratory, Medical College of Wisconsin; Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences
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Timothy B. Meier, PhD
Professor
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Christopher Pawela, PhD
Associate Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Anesthesiology; Biophysics
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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.
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Shyam S. Chaurasia, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Ross Collery, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
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Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm
Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
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Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Sang H. Lee, PhD
Professor
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Brian A. Link, PhD
Professor
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Daniel M. Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
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Qing-Song Liu, PhD
Professor
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Wei Liu, PhD
Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis Associate Professor
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Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Marcus Professor & Chair
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John D. McCorvy, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Joel B. Miesfeld, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
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Xuelin Lou, PhD
Professor
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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.
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Carol Everson, PhD
Professor
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Leonardo Fernandino, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Constanza Garcia Keller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
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Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA, FAPS
Professor, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering; Butenhoff Family Professor of Cardiovascular Research; Director, Comprehensive Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core
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William Gross, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS
Assistant Professor
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Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research
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Matthew R. Hodges, PhD, FAPS
Professor and Eminent Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies
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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
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John Mantsch, PhD
Florence J. Williams Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology
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Aaron Mickle, PhD
Associate Professor
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Pablo Nakagawa, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Christopher M. Olsen, PhD
Associate Professor
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Bin Pan, PhD
Associate Professor
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Hernan G. Rey, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Kajana Satkunendrarajah, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Physiology
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Miranda L. Scalabrino, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
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Curt D. Sigmund, PhD
James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center
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Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD
Marvin Wagner Professor
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Daochun Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Kenichiro Taniguchi, PhD
Assistant Professor
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