| | NTI Members | Department, Division or Program Affiliation | Research Interests |
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.jpg) | Victor Ambros | Department of Molecular Medicine | Molecular and genetic control of animal development; microRNA regulatory mechanisms |
 | Athena Andreadis | Department of Cell Biology | Alternative splicing |
 | Neil Aronin | Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism | Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease |
 | Claire Benard | Department of Neurobiology | Maintenance of nervous system architecture |
 | Ingolf Bach | Department of Gene Function and Expression | Neuronal Cell Fate Specification |
 | Eric Baehrecke | Department of Cancer Biology | Cell Death and Autophagy |
 | Daryl Bosco | Department of Neurology | Elucidating the factors involved in sporadic ALS |
 | Osman Bilsel | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Solving the Protein Folding Problem |
 | Robert Brown | Department of Neurology | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), muscular dystrophy, adrenoleukodystrophy, hereditary neuropathy and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis |
 | Vivian Budnik | Department of Neurobiology | Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Assembly and Plasticity |
 | Miguel Esteves | Department of Neurology | neurodegenerative lysosomal storage diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases |
 | Justin Fallon (Brown University) | Department of Neuroscience, Brown University | Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
 | Terence Flotte | Department of Medicine, Division of Pediatrics | Gene and RNAi therapy |
 | Michael Francis | Department of Neurobiology | Ion channel mediated neurodegeneration |
 | Marc Freeman | Department of Neurobiology | Molecular mechanisms of axon auto-destruction |
 | Kenny Futai | Department of Psychiatry, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute | Molecular organization of synapse |
 | Fen-Biao Gao | Department of Neurology | Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) |
 | Lawrence Hayward | Department of Neurology | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease) |
 | Hemant Khanna | Department of Ophthalmology | Neurodegenerative diseases of the retina |
 | John Landers | Department of Neurology | Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS |
 | Hong-Sheng Li | Department of Neurobiology | Neuronal regulation of membrane receptor signaling |
 | Carlos Lois | Department of Neurobiology | Assembly of neuronal circuits, neuronal replacement, and the cellular mechanisms of behavior |
 | Elisabet Mandon | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology | Membrane biogenesis. Protein trafficking. |
 | Robert Matthews | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) |
 | Haley Melikian | Department of Psychiatry, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute | Cocaine and antidepressant-sensitive monoamine transporters |
 | Craig Mello | Program in Molecular Medicine, RNA Therapeutics Institute | Regulation of gene expression during early embryogeneis in C. elegans |
 | Melissa Moore | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology | Eukaryotic RNA Processing and Metabolism |
 | Maria Morabito | Department of Cell Biology | Regulation of Excitatory Synapses in Development and Disease |
 | Mary Munson | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Regulation of vesicle targeting and fusion |
 | David Paydarfar | Department of Neurology | Neural control of autonomic functions |
 | Greg Petsko ( Brandeis University) | Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University | Parkinson’s Disease and ALS |
 | Claudio Punzo | Department of Ophthalmology | Neurodegeneration in the Retina |
 | Joel Richter | Department of Molecular Medicine | Translational Control in Meiosis, Mitosis, and Neuronal Synaptic Plasticity |
 | Dagmar Ringe (Brandeis University) | Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University | Parkinson’s Disease and ALS |
 | Evgeny Rogaev | Department of Psychiatry, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute | Molecular genetic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases and dementia |
 | Alonzo Ross | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Glioblastoma multiformi (GBM) |
 | Sean Ryder | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Oligodendrocyte differentiation |
| William Schwartz
Thomas Smith (UMMHC) | Departments of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Department of Pathology | Possible role of circadian dysrhythmias in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases
Diagnostic neuropathology and neuromuscular pathology |
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 | David Weaver | Department of Neurobiology | Circadian rhythms; myelination |
 | Zuoshang Xu | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontal temporal dementia (FTD) |
 | Jianhua Zhou | Department of Medicine | Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) |
| | Jill Zitzewitz | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology | Folding and assembly of multimeric proteins and peptides |