Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research Keywords

molecular dissection of complex disease, whole genome analysis, population genetics, genetic control of nervous system development, genetic control of cardiovascular development

Javier Emperador Melero, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Molly C. Gale Hammell, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research Keywords

Transposable Elements, Neurodegenerative Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), RNA biology, Genetics & Genomics, Computational Genomics

Orna Issler, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research Keywords

Stress, Depression, non-coding RNA, lncRNA, sex differeces , Chronic pain

Shane A. Liddelow, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research Keywords

glia, astrocyte, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, reactive astrocyte, neurotoxicity

Helen E. Scharfman, PhD

Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research 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

Mario A. Svirsky, PhD

Noel L. Cohen Professor of Hearing Science, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Neuroscience at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Research Keywords

molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience