Laboratory Research
Research Faculty Directory
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Gopal Thinakaran, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Medicine Eric Pfeiffer Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's ResearchCEO Byrd Alzheimer's Institute Associate Dean for Neuroscience Research USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Primary Faculty Members
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Laura Blair, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Dr. Casey Cook, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Ashutosh Dharap, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Medicine -
Joshua Gamsby, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Danielle Gulick, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Angele Parent, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Xuewei Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Affiliate Faculty Members
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Paula Bickford, PHD
Distinguished USF Health Professor Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Senior Research Career Scientist, James A. Haley VA Hospital -
Chuanhai Cao, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, USF College of Pharmacy, -
Yu Chen, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Shalini Jain, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Faculty, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair Faculty, USF Center for Microbiome Research, Institute for Microbiomes -
Umesh Jinwal, PHD
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Pharmaceutical SciencesUSF College of Pharmacy -
Kevin Nash, PhD
Assistant Professor Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Pharmacology ;amp; Physiology USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Vladimir Uversky, PhD, DSc
Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine -
Lianchun Wang, MD
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology mer's Research Institute, Enand Physiology, Professor, Byrd Alzheidowed USF Chair of Neurovascular Research -
Hariom Yadav, Ph.D.
Director, USF Center for Microbiome Research, Institute for Microbiomes Associate Professor, Neurosurgery and Brain Repair Associate Professor, Internal Medicine- Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Faculty, Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair Faculty, Byrd Alzheimer's Center/ USF Neuroscience Institute -
Yao Yao, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology
Areas of Focus
The following is a list of all areas of focus that our laboratories explore along with last names of faculty investigators currently engaged in that research.
| Area of Focus | Faculty Engaged in Research |
|---|---|
| Addiction | Gulick, Gamsby |
| Aging | Bickford, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Wang, Yao Yao, Cook |
| Amyloid toxicity | Uversky, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | Uversky, Heckmann |
| Biomarkers | Cao, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Yao Yao, Cook |
| Blood Brain Barrier | Yao Yao |
| Cell death mechanisms | Blair, Thinakaran, Parent, Heckmann, Wang, Cook |
| Circadian Rhythm | Gulick, Gamsby |
| Cytoskeleton | Blair, Thinakaran, Parent, Wang, Cook |
| Drug discovery | Blair, Nash, Jinwal, Cao, Chen, Uversky, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Heckmann |
| Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) | Blair, Uversky, Thinakaran, Cook |
| Learning & Memory | Parent, Thinakaran, Gulick, Gamsby, Bickford, Cao, Blair, Nash, Jinwal, Yao Yao, Cook |
| Mitochondrial dysfunction | Bickford, Yadav, Heckmann |
| Molecular Neuropathology | Thinakaran, Blair, Parent, Heckmann, Dharap, Heckmann, Wang, Yao Yao, Cook |
| Neuroinflammation | Heckmann, Nash, Cao, Blair, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Yao Yao, Cook |
| Oxidative stress | Uversky, Thinakaran, Heckmann |
| Parkinson’s disease (PD) | Nash, Uversky, Bickford, Heckmann |
| Protein misfolding & chaperones | Blair, Cao, Uversky, Bickford, Thinakaran, Cook |
| Stroke & TBI | Dharap, Blair, Bickford, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Yao Yao |
| Structure-based drug design | Chen, Thinakaran, Yadav, Heckmann |
| Synaptic plasticity | Parent, Blair, Nash, Thinakaran |
| Synucleinopathy | Uversky, Nash, Bickford |
| Tauopathy |
Blair, Thinakaran, Nash, Jinwal, Uversky, Bickford, Parent, Heckmann, Cook |
| Microbiome | Yadav, Jain, Heckmann |