Michael G. Agadjanyan, PhD
Research Professor Institute for Molecular Medicine (Huntington Beach) UCI MIND
Immunotherapy; neuroinflammation
Aileen J. Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Anatomy & Neurobiology
Role of inflammation in degeneration and regeneration of injured CNS; human CNS stem cell engraftment
Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics; Anatomy & Neurobiology; Neurology
Epilepsy, Fever-induced (febrile) seizures of children, Learning and memory deficits after stress and seizures
Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD
Assistant Researcher, Neurobiology & Behavior
Animal models; neurotrophins; stem cell biology
Szofia Bullain, MD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Neurology
Alzheimer’s disease and dementia prevention and care; vascular aging; modifiable risk factors for late-age dementia
Jorge A. Busciglio, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Axonal transport; Down syndrome; mitochondrial dysfunction; oxidative stress
Maria M. Corrada-Bravo, ScD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Neurology
Aging, dementia, oldest-old, risk and protective factors for dementia, longitudinal epidemiological studies.
Carl W. Cotman, PhD
Founding Director and Professor, Neurology; Neurobiology & Behavior
Exercise; neurotrophic support; neuroinflammation
Steven C. Cramer, MD
Professor, Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology
Stroke; spinal cord and brain injury
David Cribbs, PhD
Research Professor and Associate Director, UCI MIND; Neuropathology Core Co-Leader, UCI ADRC
Alzheimer’s disease; cerebral vascular pathology; immunotherapy.
Brian Cummings, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Spinal cord injury; stem cell biology
Malcolm C. Dick, PhD
Senior Neuropsychologist, UCI MIND
Alzheimer’s disease; clinical psychology; cognitive testing; dementia; mild cognitive impairments
Karen L. Edwards, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology
Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease; gene x environment interactions; mixed methods research
Mark J. Fisher MD
Professor, Neurology
Mechanisms of stroke, vascular neurobiology, blood-brain barrier
Lisa Flanagan, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Neural stem cell proliferation, differentiation, neurogenesis
Daniel L. Gillen, PhD
Professor and Chair, Statistics; Epidemiology
Biostatistics; design and analysis of clinical trials; longitudinal data analysis; group sequential methods
Charles Glabe, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Amyloid Aß; amyloid assembly; amyloid structure; Alzheimer’s pathogenesis
Kim Green, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Works on Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics.
Joshua D. Grill, PhD
Co-Director, UCI MIND; Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Alzheimer’s disease; clinical trials
Neal Hermanowicz, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology
Parkinson’s disease; Huntington’s disease; movement disorders
Claudia H. Kawas, MD
Professor, Neurology; Neurobiology & Behavior
Successful aging; The 90+ Study; Oldest old, Dementia; Alzheimer’s disease.
Frank M. LaFerla, PhD
Co-Director, UCI MIND; Dean, Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease; animal models, inclusion body myositis (IBM); Lewy body dementia; pre-clinical drug development; stem cell biology
Charles Limoli, PhD
Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Radiation Oncology
Oxidative stress, Neurogenesis, Stem cells, Transplantation, Chemobrain, Irradiation, Cognitive dysfunction
Mark Mapstone, PhD
Health Sciences Clinical Professor, Neurology
Alzheimer’s disease; cognitive aging; blood biomarkers; memory; translational neuroscience; neuropsychology
Edwin S. Monuki, MD, PhD
Chair, Pathology; Developmental & Cell Biology
Choroid plexus; stem cells; Alzheimer’s disease; cortical development.
Tahseen Mozaffar, MD
Associate Professor, Neurology
ALS; neuromuscular disorders; compression neuropathy; clinical trials.
Irene Munk Pedersen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
miRNA; stem cells, blood-brain barrier defects
Diane O’Dowd, PhD
HHMI Professor, Vice Provost, Academic Personnel, Developmental and Cell Biology
Synaptic transmission, plasticity, genetics, learning and memory.
Aimee Pierce, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology; Medical Director of the Memory Assessment Research Center
Wayne Poon, PhD
Tissue Repository Director, UCI MIND
Molecular and cell neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease
Steven S. Schreiber, MD
Professor, Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology
Alzheimer’s disease; clinical trials.
Stefano L Sensi MD, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Neurology, Pharmacology
Alzheimer’s disease, excitotoxicity, physiology of glutamate receptors, calcium and zinc dyshomeostasis, mitochondria, metabolomics, proteomics, fMRI investigation of cognitive decline in aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
Steven L. Small, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Neurology
Brain and language; aphasia; network modeling; stroke.
Andrea J. Tenner, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Innate Immunity; Inflammation; Complement; Alzheimer’s disease; Neuroprotection; Neurodegeneration.
Leslie M. Thompson, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior; Neurobiology & Behavior
Huntington’s disease; stem cell biology; animal models.
John H. Weiss, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology
ALS; Alzheimer’s disease; epilepsy; stroke.
Michael Yassa, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Learning and memory; Neuroimaging; Healthy Aging and Dementia