Movement Disorders Research Faculty
NYU Langone’s Kellar Family Division of Movement Disorders comprises faculty who are leaders in the field.
Yunmin Ding, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease and L-Dopa induced dyskinesia (LID)
Methodological skills: chemogenetic and optogenetic stimulation as well as pharmacologic, behavioral, and morphological analyses
Andrew S. Feigin, MD
Director, Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, dystonia, and tremor
Methodological skills: experimental therapeutics, including clinical trial design and conduct and drug development strategy
Steven J. Frucht, MD
Director, Kellar Family Division of Movement Disorders
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: clinical movement disorders, hyperkinetic movement disorders, musicians’ dystonia, myoclonus, alcohol-responsive movement disorders, and clinical phenomenology
Un J. Kang, MD
Director, Translational Research, Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Co-Director, Parekh Center for Interdisciplinary Neurology
The Founders Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, mechanisms of neurodegeneration using experimental mouse models, and biomarkers of neurodegeneration in human biofluids and tissues
Methodological skills: behavioral monitoring in Parkinson’s disease rodent models, optogenetic and chemogenetic modulation of specific cell types in mouse brain, in vivo multichannel electrophysiology recording and optic recording in mouse brain, single-cell transcriptomics of human brain cells, biomarkers of human Parkinson’s disease biofluids, and statistical analysis of public Parkinson’s disease database
Thong C. Ma, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy
Methodological skills: neuron-type selective gene expression, single cell/nucleus transcriptomics, rodent Parkinson’s disease models, and biomarker development
Giulietta M. Riboldi, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease, atypical parkinsonism, genetic movement disorders, genomics, and the immune system and Parkinson’s disease
Methodological skills: genetic and genomic analysis (whole exome sequencing, RNAseq, and methylation), statistical analysis of longitudinal data, and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases
Christine M. Stahl, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: movement disorders