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Gopal Thinakaran, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine
Eric Pfeiffer Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Research
CEO Byrd Alzheimer's Institute
Associate Dean for Neuroscience Research
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
thinakaran@usf.edu
Krishna M. Bhat, MD, PhD
Goldsmith Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
kbhat@usf.edu
Laura J. Blair, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
laurablair@usf.edu
Ashutosh Dharap, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Medicine
dharap@usf.edu
Joshua Gamsby, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
gamsby@usf.edu
Danielle Gulick, PhD
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
dgulick@usf.edu
Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
bheckmann@usf.edu
Stephen B. Liggett, MD
Vice Dean for Research Professor, Internal Medicine, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
sliggett@usf.edu
Angele Parent, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
angeleparent@usf.edu
Lianchun Wang, MD
Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
lianchunw@usf.edu
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
pbickfor@usf.edu
Chuanhai Cao, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, USF College of Pharmacy,
ccao@usf.edu
Yu Chen, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
ychen1@usf.edu
Jerri Edwards, PhD
Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
jedwards1@usf.edu
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
jains10@usf.edu
Umesh Jinwal, PHD
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Pharmaceutical SciencesUSF College of Pharmacy
jinwalu@usf.edu
Kevin Nash, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
nash@usf.edu
Vladimir Uversky, PhD, DSc
Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
vuversky@usf.edu
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
hyadav@usf.edu
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, Bhat, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain |
| Amyloid toxicity | Bhat, Uversky, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | Uversky |
| Axon guidance | Bhat |
| Biomarkers | Cao, Yadav, Jain |
| Cell death mechanisms | Bhat, Blair, Thinakaran, Parent |
| Circadian Rhythm | Gulick, Gamsby |
| Cytoskeleton | Blair, Thinakaran, Parent |
| Drug discovery | Blair, Bhat, Nash, Jinwal, Cao, Chen, Uversky, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav |
| Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) | Blair, Uversky, Thinakaran |
| Learning & Memory | Parent, Thinakaran, Gulick, Gamsby, Bhat, Bickford, Cao, Blair, Nash, Jinwal |
| Mitochondrial dysfunction | Bickford, Yadav |
| Molecular Neuropathology | Thinakaran, Blair, Parent, Heckmann, Dharap |
| Neurogenesis | Bhat, Bickford |
| Neuroinflammation | Heckmann, Nash, Cao, Blair, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain |
| Oxidative stress | Bhat, Uversky, Thinakaran |
| Parkinson’s disease (PD) | Nash, Uversky, Bickford |
| Protein misfolding & chaperones | Blair, Cao, Uversky, Bickford, Thinakaran |
| Stroke & TBI | Dharap, Blair, Bickford, Yadav, Jain |
| Structure-based drug design | Chen, Thinakaran, Yadav |
| Synaptic plasticity | Parent, Blair, Nash,Thinakaran |
| Synucleinopathy | Uversky, Nash, Bickford |
| Tauopathy |
Blair, Thinakaran, Nash, Jinwal, Uversky, Bickford, Parent |
| Microbiome | Yadav, Jain |