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Movement Disorders Research Faculty
NYU Langone’s Kellar Family Division of Movement Disorders comprises faculty who are leaders in the field.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Christine M. Stahl, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: movement disorders