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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

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

Primary Faculty Members

Affiliate Faculty Members