Department of Neurology
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Sandra C.V. Almeida, PhD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer disease (AD).
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Daryl A. Bosco, PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Pathogenic mechanisms underlying Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; protein misfolding in ALS
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Robert H. Brown, Jr., MD, DPhil
Academic Role: Professor and Vice Chair
Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, RNA Therapeutics Institute
Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research
Focus: Identification of gene defects in neuromuscular diseases; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
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Yingleong Chan, PhD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Using induced pluripotent stem cells from patient samples to model Herpes viral infection as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and Hearing-loss due to Cisplatin treatment.
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Felicia Chu, MD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Epilepsy
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Charles P. Emerson Jr., PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
PI, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School
Focus: Muscular Dystrophies
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Fen-Biao Gao, PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
The Governor Paul Cellucci Chair in Neuroscience Research
Focus: Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and ALS.
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Edward Ginns, MD, PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry
Focus: Neurogenetics; lysosomal storage disorders.
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Lawrence J. Hayward, MD, PhD
Academic Role: Professor of Neurology
Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Neurology
Focus: Motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Christopher C. Hemond, MD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroimaging, Psychoneuroimmunology
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Nils Henninger, MD, PhD
Academic Role: Associate Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry
Focus: Stroke and brain injury.
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John Landers, PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS.
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Jeanne Lawrence, PhD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics
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Ika Noviawaty, MD
Academic Role: Associate Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery
Director, Epilepy Service
Focus: Epilepsy
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Miguel S. Sena-Esteves, PhD
Academic Role: Associate Professor
Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, Department of Neurology, Horae Gene Therapy Center
Focus: Preclinical gene therapy of neurological diseases and brain cancer.
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Kara Smith, MD
Academic Role: Assistant Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology
Focus: Parkinson’s disease, Movement disorders, biomarker development
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Thomas Smith, MD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Pathology
Focus: Forensic neuropathology and CNS neoplasia.
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Andrew W. Zimmerman, MD
Academic Role: Professor
Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics
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Jill Zitzewitz, PhD
Academic Role: Associate Professor
Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology
Focus: Protein Misfolding and Disease.