Neuroscience Institute Faculty
Faculty at NYU Langone’s Neuroscience Institute lead innovative, interdisciplinary research projects and mentor trainees in the latest neuroscientific ideas and methodologies. Learn more about our associate and emeritus faculty.
Laura J. Balcer, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
Jayeeta Basu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neurosciencec, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Nigel W. Bunnett, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Steven J. Burden, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, genome integrity, pharmacology, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology,
Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD
Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Kenneth D. Carr, PhD
Professor, Department of PsychiatryResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, pharmacology, systems, neurobiology of ingestive behavior and drug addiction, dopamine, reward
Francisco X. Castellanos, MD
Director, Center for Neurodevelopmental DisordersResearch Keywords
ADHD, RDoC, imaging, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience, neuroimaging, neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions,
Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Kevin C. Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of OphthalmologyResearch Keywords
Biomedical imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging, Visual neuroscience, Visual system, Eye, Glaucoma, Sensory substitution,
Moses V. Chao, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, molecular mechanisms of trophic factor action
Zhe S. Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
integration of computational and experimental techniques to dissect neural circuits and neural population codes, computational neuroscience, neural engineering, computational statistics, machine learning
Dmitri Chklovskii, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
computational biology, imaging, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Jeremy S. Dasen, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
developmental genetics, genome integrity, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology
Claude Desplan, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Orrin Devinsky, MD
Chief of Service, NYU Epilepsy ServiceResearch Keywords
epilepsy , seizure disorders, SUDC, Febrile Seizures
Gilad D. Evrony, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Genetics and Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
Genomics, Single-cell sequencing, Neurodevelopment, Human genetics, Brain tumors, Precision medicine
Robert C. Froemke, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryResearch Keywords
metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Esther P. Gardner, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
sensory functions of the hand, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Stephen D. Ginsberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of PsychiatryResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience,
Paul W. Glimcher, PhD
Director, Neuroscience Institute
Donald C. Goff, MD
Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
John G. Golfinos, MD
Co-Director, Brain Tumor Center, Perlmutter Cancer CenterResearch Keywords
Molecular biology of brain tumors, Clinical progression in NF-2
Jordan Hamm, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Biyu J. He
Associate Professor, Department of NeurologyResearch Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Orna Issler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain MedicineUn J. Kang, MD
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Physiology
Eric J. Lang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
neuronal basis of motor control, cerebellar physiology, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Efrat Levy, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of PsychiatryResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, Extracellular vesicles, Exosomes, amyloid
Shane A. Liddelow, PhD
Co-Director, Parekh Center for Interdisciplinary Neurology
Dayu Lin, PhD
Professor, Department of PsychiatryResearch Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Anli A. Liu, MD
Associate Professor, Department of NeurologyResearch Keywords
epilepsy, memory disorders, sleep, neurostimulation, neurophysiology, electroencephalography, electrocorticography, signal processing, neuropsychology, cognition,
Michael A. Long, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Adam Mar, PhD
Director of the Rodent Behavior Core
Arjun V. Masurkar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of NeurologyResearch Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, memory, olfaction, smell, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex,
J. Anthony Movshon, PhD
Professor, Department of OphthalmologyResearch Keywords
vision, visual development
Katherine Nagel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Thomas A. Neubert, PhD
Director - Proteomics CoreResearch Keywords
using mass spectrometry to study proteins and their posttranslational modifications, biophysics, cancer, metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, pharmacology, proteomics
Ralph A. Nixon, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of PsychiatryResearch Keywords
regulation of protein structure and function by proteolysis and phosphorylation, cell and molecular biology of the neuronal cytoskeleton, molecular mechanisms of brain aging and cell death, pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience,
Dimitris G. Placantonakis, MD, PhD
Dir Neurosurgical Laboratory for Stem Cell ReschResearch Keywords
Glioblastoma stem cells, human embryonic stem cells, glioma biology, gliomagenesis, glioma therapeutics, cancer, imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
Margaret E. Rice, PhD
Professor, Department of NeurosurgeryResearch Keywords
neurochemistry and neurophysiology of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway, diet, insulin, leptin, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, somatodendritic dopamine release, dopamine release and uptake, whole-cell recording
Dmitry Rinberg, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Niels Ringstad, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, developmental genetics, genome integrity, metabolism, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Eduardo D. Rodriguez, DDS, MD
Chair, Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery
J. Thomas Roland Jr., MD
Chair, Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck SurgeryResearch Keywords
cochlear implant, auditory brainstem implant, temporal bone anatomy and disease, Meniere's disease, computer applications, temporal bone education, temporal bone evaluation, skull base / acoustic tumor surgery, facial nerve surgery, NF2
Andrew D. Rosenberg, MD
Dorothy Reaves Spatz, MD Chair of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine
Bernardo Rudy, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Research, Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain MedicineResearch Keywords
organization and function of neocortical circuits, channels and transporters, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
James L. Salzer
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, molecular, cellular & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, cell-cell interactions during neural development
Heidi Schambra, MD
Associate Professor, Department of NeurologyResearch Keywords
neuroplasticity, stroke recovery, motor skill learning, noninvasive brain stimulation, neuromodulation,
Helen E. Scharfman, PhD
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryResearch Keywords
hippocampus and parahippocampal areas, their role in normal function and their contribution to neurological disorders and mental illness, neurotrophins (BDNF)and neuronal plasticity , neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus , mechanisms controlling neuronal excitability; seizures; epilepsy, neuronal modulation by reproductive steroids, brain and spinal cord injury; neuroprotection, imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
David Schoppik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryResearch Keywords
imaging, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience, zebrafish
Shy Shoham, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Einar M. Sigurdsson, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
pathogenesis , Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, type-2 diabetes, immunology, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience, diagnosis, therapy, Parkinson's disease, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative diseases, Protein conformational disorders, imaging
Tanya C. Sippy, MD, PhD
Director, Research Track for Res Train Pg in Psych
Daniel K. Sodickson, PhD, MD
Director, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical ImagingResearch Keywords
imaging
Regina M. Sullivan, PhD
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryResearch Keywords
systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Mario Svirsky, PhD
Vice Chair Research NYUHCResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Moriah E. Thomason, PhD
Barakett Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Jessica E. Treisman, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell BiologyResearch Keywords
cancer, developmental genetics, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, cell signaling, synapse formation
Nicolas Tritsch, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
molecular, cellular & translational neuroscience, synaptic physiology, channels and transporters
Richard Tsien, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience and PhysiologyResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, stem cell biology, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Jing Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain MedicineResearch Keywords
channels and transporters, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience
Donald A. Wilson, PhD
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryResearch Keywords
Memory and perception, especially olfaction, Systems & Cognitive neuroscience, Neuropathology across the lifespan
Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD
Director, Alzheimer's Disease CenterResearch Keywords
immunology, neuropathology, neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, immunomodulation
Edward Ziff, PhD
Graduate Student AdvisorResearch Keywords
molecular mechanisms of synaptic regulation
