Faculty

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

Kevin T. Beier, PhD

Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine

Neuroscience, Neural Circuits, Neural plasticity, Molecular Neuroscience, Behavior, Technique Development, Viral-genetic

Ruth Benca, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Sleep and Brain Disease

Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Animal models; neurotrophins; stem cell biology

Emiliana Borrelli, PhD

Chancellor's Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine; Joint Appointment, Pharmacology, School of Medicine

dopaminergic neurons, pharmacology, animal models, neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases

Gregory J. Brewer, PhD

Professor, Biomedical Engineering

neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, neuronal networks, neuron cell culture

Jorge A. Busciglio, PhD

Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Axonal transport; Down syndrome; mitochondrial dysfunction; oxidative stress

María M. Corrada, ScM, ScD

Professor, Neurology, Epidemiology

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

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 B. 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

Christine Gall, PhD

Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurobiology & Behavior

adult synaptic plasticity, memory encoding, synaptic modulators, intellectual disability, autism, adhesion proteins, neurotrophic factors

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

Alan L. Goldin, MD, PhD

Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Physiology & Biophysics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Ion Channels and Central Nervous System Disease

Kim Green, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Works on Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics.

Joshua D. Grill, PhD

Director, UCI MIND; Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior

Alzheimer’s disease; clinical trials

Elizabeth Head, PhD

Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Experimental Pathology PhD Program

Kei Igarashi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology

Memory, olfaction, Alzheimer's disease, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex

Claudia H. Kawas, MD

Professor, Neurology; Neurobiology & Behavior

Successful aging; The 90+ Study; Oldest old, Dementia; Alzheimer’s disease.

Ronald C. Kim, MD

Clinical Professor, Pathology

Neuropathology; Alzheimer’s disease; dementia.

Virginia E. Kimonis, MD

Chief, Division of Genetics and Metabolism; Professor, Pediatrics

Neuromuscular disorders, inclusion body myopathy, Paget disease, frontotemporal dementia, Prader Willi, morbid obesity, craniosynostosis

Masashi Kitazawa, PhD

Associate Professor, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), Department of Medicine/OEM; Affiliated Member, Public Health

Alzheimer's disease, neurodegenerative diseases, myopathies, inflammation, microglia

Frank M. LaFerla, PhD

Director, UCI Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; Dean, UCI School of Biological Sciences

Alzheimer’s disease; animal models, inclusion body myositis (IBM); Lewy body dementia; pre-clinical drug development; stem cell biology

Michael Leon, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior

Cognitive enhancement in older adults

Charles Limoli, PhD

Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Radiation Oncology

Oxidative stress, Neurogenesis, Stem cells, Transplantation, Chemobrain, Irradiation, Cognitive dysfunction

Ira T. Lott, MD

Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Neurology

Down syndrome.

Gary Lynch, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Anatomy & Neurobiology

Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity: LTP, glutamate receptors and cell adhesion molecules; Cellular deficits underlying cognitive impairment in animal model sof cognitive impairment; Cellular mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability in brain aging

Bryce Mander, PhD

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior School of Medicine

Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Cognitive Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory, Neurodegeneration

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.

Ali Mortazavi, PhD

Associate Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology

Transcriptional Regulation, Genomics, Long-range chromatin interactions, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq

Tahseen Mozaffar, MD

Associate Professor, Neurology

ALS; neuromuscular disorders; compression neuropathy; clinical trials.

Bin Nan, PhD

Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics

survival analysis, analysis of high-dimensional brain image data, analysis of longitudinal data with change-points, terminal events, and variables subject to limit of detection.