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
Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Animal models; neurotrophins; stem cell biology
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 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
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.
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
Charles Limoli, PhD
Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Radiation Oncology
Oxidative stress, Neurogenesis, Stem cells, Transplantation, Chemobrain, Irradiation, Cognitive dysfunction
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.
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.
Daniel Nation, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychological Science
Role of vascular cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease; development of cognitive and biological markers of cerebrovascular aging
James Nowick, PhD
Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Department of Chemistry
Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology
Diane O’Dowd, PhD
HHMI Professor, Vice Provost, Academic Personnel, Developmental and Cell Biology
Synaptic transmission, plasticity, genetics, learning and memory.
Andre Obenaus, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics; Director, Preclinical and Translational Imaging Center
Pediatrics
Ahmad Sajjadi, MD, PhD, MRCP
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Memory disorders; neurology
Steven S. Schreiber, MD
Professor, Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology
Alzheimer’s disease; clinical trials.
Vivek Swarup, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
Neurodegeneration, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Epigenetics, Genetics, Alzheimer's disease, Therapeutics, Aging
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.
Xiangmin Xu, PhD
Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology
Neural circuits, Cell-type specific, Electrophysiology, Imaging, Optical stimulation, Molecular genetics
Michael Yassa, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, Psychiatry, Neurology
Learning and memory, neuroimaging, biomarkers, aging and dementia
