Laboratory Research
Research Faculty Directory
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 |
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Addiction | Gulick, Gamsby |
Aging | Bickford, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Wang, Yao, Cook |
Amyloid toxicity | Uversky, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | Uversky, Heckmann |
Biomarkers | Cao, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Yao, Cook |
Blood Brain Barrier | 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, Cook |
Mitochondrial dysfunction | Bickford, Yadav, Heckmann |
Molecular Neuropathology | Thinakaran, Blair, Parent, Heckmann, Dharap, Heckmann, Wang, Yao, Cook |
Neuroinflammation | Heckmann, Nash, Cao, Blair, Thinakaran, Parent, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, Yao, Cook |
Oxidative stress | Uversky, Thinakaran, Heckmann |
Parkinson’s Disease & Other Synucleinopathies | Nash, Uversky, Bickford, Heckmann, Ramalingam |
Protein misfolding & chaperones | Blair, Cao, Uversky, Bickford, Thinakaran, Cook |
Stroke & TBI | Dharap, Blair, Bickford, Yadav, Jain, Heckmann, 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 |
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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(813) 974-9214
Primary Faculty Members
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Laura Blair, PhD
Associate Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 396-0639 -
Dr. Casey Cook, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 396-0748 -
Ashutosh Dharap, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Medicine -
Joshua Gamsby, PhD
Associate Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 396-0667 -
Danielle Gulick, PhD
Associate Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 974-7402 -
Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 396-9066 -
Angele Parent, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 974-8219 -
Nagendran Ramalingam
Assistant 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(813) 396-0977
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(813) 396-0742 -
Yu Chen, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 974-7809 -
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 Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences USF College of Pharmacy(813) 974-1211 -
Eleni Markoutsa, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine -
Kevin Nash, PhD
Assistant Professor Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute Department of Molecular Pharmacology ;amp; Physiology USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 974-3788 -
Amy Nelson, PhD
Morsani College of Medicine Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology -
Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky, PhD, DSc, FAAAS, FAIMBE, FRSB, FRSC, PhD, DSc
Professor Department of Molecular Medicine USF Health Morsani College of Medicine(813) 974-5816 -
Lianchun Wang, MD
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology
Professor, Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute
Endowed USF Chair of Neurovascular Research(813) 974-2910 -
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(813) 974-9489