Aileen J. Anderson, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Director, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center
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
Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics
Neuroscience, Neural Circuits, Neural plasticity, Molecular Neuroscience, Behavior, Technique Development, Viral-genetic
Mathew Blurton-Jones, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Animal models; neurotrophins; stem cell biology
Emiliana Borrelli, PhD
Chancellor's Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics; Joint Appointment, Pharmacology
dopaminergic neurons, pharmacology, animal models, neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases
Gregory J. Brewer, PhD
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, neuronal networks, neuron cell culture
Michael Bueno, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
Associate Clinical Professor, Nursing
Caregiver Health, Alzheimer's & dementia caregivers, Male caregivers, Nursing Simulation
Jorge A. Busciglio, PhD
Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior
Axonal transport; Down syndrome; mitochondrial dysfunction; oxidative stress
Sarah Campbell, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Associate Clinical Professor, Nursing
Holistic & Integrative Approaches to Patient Care, Motivational Interviewing, Wellness, Geriatric Care, Shared Decision-Making, Interprofessional and APRN Education
Cameron Carter, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Neural mechanisms underlying attention, memory, and
cognitive control
Jefferson W. Chen, MD
Clinical Professor and Acting Chair, Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
Brain tumors, normal pressure hydrocephalus, stroke and stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury
María M. Corrada, ScM, ScD
Professor, Neurology, Epidemiology - School of Medicine
Aging, dementia, oldest-old, risk and protective factors for dementia, longitudinal epidemiological studies.
David Cribbs, PhD
Professor in Residence, Neurology
Alzheimer’s disease; cerebral vascular pathology; immunotherapy.
Brian Cummings, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Spinal cord injury; stem cell biology
Karen L. Edwards, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Population Health & Disease Prevention
Genetic epidemiology of complex diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease; gene x environment interactions; mixed methods research
Ali Ezzati, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, Neurology
Predictive analytics for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease
Mark J. Fisher MD
Professor, Neurology
Mechanisms of stroke, vascular neurobiology, blood-brain barrier
Christine Gall, PhD
Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurobiology & Behavior
adult synaptic plasticity, memory encoding, synaptic modulators, intellectual disability, autism, adhesion proteins, neurotrophic factors
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
Crystal M. Glover, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine; Outreach Recruitment & Engagement Core Leader
Health disparities in aging and dementia, social determinants of health, research recruitment
Alan L. Goldin, MD, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Physiology & Biophysics, Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Ion Channels and Central Nervous System Disease
Joshua D. Grill, PhD
Director, UCI MIND; 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
Claire Henchcliffe, MD, DPhil
Stanley van den Noort Professor and Chair, Neurology
Parkinson's disease, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative neurology
Christy Hom, Ph.D., ABPdN
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Down syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, intellectual disabilities
Kei Igarashi, PhD
Chancellor's Fellow Associate 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
Albert La Spada, MD, PhD, FACMGG
Distinguished Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Neurology; Associate Dean for Research Development; Director, UCI Institute for Neurotherapeutics; Vice Chair, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Vice Chair, Neurology
Frank M. LaFerla, PhD
Director, UCI Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; Dean, Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease; animal models, inclusion body myositis (IBM); Lewy body dementia; pre-clinical drug development; stem cell biology
Jung-Ah Lee, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN
Professor, Nursing
Minority Aging, Caregiving, Health Equity, Dyad Research, Chronic Disease Management, Digital Health, Intervention studies using mixed methods
Sunmin Lee, ScD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology; Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Social Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Cancer Prevention & Cancer Survivorship, Community-Based Participatory Research, Mixed-Methods Research, Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), Minority & Immigrant Health
Wei Li, PhD
Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics, Division of Computational Biomedicine, Biological Chemistry
Computational Epigenomics and Transcriptomics
Charles Limoli, PhD
Professor, Radiation Oncology
Oxidative stress, Neurogenesis, Stem cells, Transplantation, Chemobrain, Irradiation, Cognitive dysfunction
Karen D. Lincoln, PhD, MSW, MA, FGSA
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health; Director, Center for Environmental Health Disparities Research, Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences
Health disparities, mental health, social determinants of health, African Americans, brain health, minority aging
Gary Lynch, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Anatomy & Neurobiology
Mechanisms of synaptic plasticity: LTP, glutamate receptors and cell adhesion molecules; Cellular deficits underlying cognitive impairment in animal model sof cognitive impairment; Cellular mechanisms of neuronal vulnerability in brain aging
Bryce Mander, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Cognitive Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory, Neurodegeneration
Mark Mapstone, PhD
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.
Ali Mortazavi, PhD
Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology
Transcriptional Regulation, Genomics, Long-range chromatin interactions, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq
Tahseen Mozaffar, MD
Clinical 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.
James Nowick, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology
Adey M. Nyamathi, ANP, PhD, FAAN
Distinguished Professor, Nursing
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, vulnerable populations including previously incarcerated, homeless, rural women of India and gay/bisexual youth
Diane O’Dowd, PhD
HHMI Professor, Vice Provost, Academic Personnel, Developmental and Cell Biology
Synaptic transmission, plasticity, genetics, learning and memory.
Nancy Pike PhD, FNP-BC, CPNP-AC/PC, FAHA, FAAN
Professor | Founding Associate Dean for Research Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Congenital heart disease across the lifespan, cognition, psychosocial / Social Determinants of Health outcomes, and neuroimaging
Steven S. Schreiber, MD
Professor, Neurology; Anatomy & Neurobiology
Alzheimer’s disease; clinical trials.
Xiaoyu Shi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology, Chemistry
Single-cell spatial multiomics of intact tissues
Vivek Swarup, PhD
Associate 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.
Leigh Turner, PhD
Professor, Public Health, Health, Society & Behavior
Health ethics; translational research ethics; deceptive advertising and exploitation of vulnerable persons.
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
William Yong, MD
Chief of Neuropathology; Director, Neuropathology Fellowship Program; Professor, Pathology
Neuropathology of Down Syndrome, COVID-19, and Brain Tumors; Biobanking; Pathology Informatics
Atena Zahedi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pharmacy Practice
Mitochondria fitness traits (MFTs) and mitochondria transfer (MT) in regulating neurodegenerative diseases and neuroinflammatory disorders
