Neurosciences
Faculty and labs

Glenn B. Anderson, MD
Stanley Appel, MD
Tetsuo Ashizawa, MD
Farah Atassi, MD
David Baskin, MD
David Beers, PhD
Gavin W. Britz, MBBCh, MPH
E. Brian Butler, MD
David Chiu, MD
Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, PhD
Purvi Desai, MD
Orlando M. Diaz, MD
Mario F. Dulay Jr., PhD
Marie B. Frando, MD
Masahiro Fujita, MD, PhD
Rajan R. Gadhia, MD
Kasey L. Gildersleeve, MD
Eugene Golanov, PhD
Robert Grossman, MD
Alric Hawkins, MD
Muralidhar L. Hegde, PhD
Santosh Helekar, MD, PhD
Paul Holman, MD
Philip J. Horner, PhD
Teresa Kaldis, MD
Christof Karmonik, PhD
Richard P. Klucznik, MD
Eugene Lai, MD
Jenny M. Lai, MD
Weidong Le, MD, PhD
Andrew Lee, MD
Joseph Masdeu, MD, PhD
Brandy Ma, MD, PhD
Vivek Misra, MD, FAHA

M. Obadah Nakawah, MD
William G. Ondo, MD
Rob G. Parrish, MD
Belen Pascual, PhD
Kenneth Podell, PhD
Suzanne Z. Powell, MD
Gustavo C. Roman, MD
David Rosenfield, MD
Pankaj Satija, MD
Dimitry Sayenko, PhD
Martyn A. Sharpe, PhD
Sheetal Shroff, MBBS
Ericka Simpson, MD
Stacy V. Smith, MD
Gill Sviri, MD, MSc
Bin Teh, MD
Aaron D. Thome, PhD
Jason R. Thonhoff, MD, PhD
Ron Tintner, MD
Todd Trask, MD
Amit Verma, MD
Aparajitha K. Verma, MD
Sonia Villapol, PhD
John Volpi, MD
Olga Waln, MD
Yi-Lan Weng, PhD
Kelvin K. Wong, PhD
Yi Jonathan Zhang, MD
Weihua Zhao, MD, PhD

Neurology Laboratories

ALS Lab  Director: Stanley H. Appel
Jun Li Lab  Principal Investigator: Jun Li, MD, PhD, FANA, FAAN
Brain Cancer Research Lab  Principal Investigator: Kyuson Yun, PhD
Neuroimaging Lab Principal Investigator: Joseph C. Masdeu, MD, PhD

Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces

In collaboration with Rice Neuroengineering Initiative
Co-director: Gavin Britz, MD 
Co-director: Behnaam Aazhang, ECEE

Cerebrovascular/Memory/CSF Research Lab

Principal Investigator: Gavin W. Britz, MBBCh, MPH, MBA, FAANS
Co-investigator: Eugene Golanov MD, PhD
Co-investigator: Angelique Regnier-Golanov PhD

Neuromodulator Recovery Lab
Principal Investigator: Dimitry Sayenko, MD, PhD

Neural Electrokinetics Lab
Principal Investigator: Amir H. Faraji, MD, PhD

 

Neuroregeneration Laboratories

Center for Neuroregeneration Labs

Director: Philip J. Horner, PhD

Neuroplasticity & Repair Lab 
Principal Investigator: Philip J. Horner, PhD

Astrocellular Therapeutics Lab
Principal Investigator: Robert C. Krencik, PhD

Brain-Periphery Lab
Principal Investigator: Sonia Villapol, PhD

Neuroepigenetics Lab
Principal Investigator: Yi Lan Weng, PhD

Neurodegeneration & Brain Hemorrhage Lab
Principal Investigator: Muralidhar L. Hegde, PhD, Fellow-ABAP

Glioblastoma and Brain Metastasis Research Lab
Principal Investigator: Robert Rostomily, MD

 

Peak Brain and Pituitary Research Laboratories

Peak Center Labs
Director: David S. Baskin, MD, FACS, FAANS

    Targeted Cancer Treatment Lab

Principal Investigator: Martyn A. Sharpe, PhD

Tumor Metabolomics Lab
Principal Investigator: Kumar Pichumani, PhD

Magnetic Stimulation Device Core Lab
Principal Investigator: Santosh Helekar, MD, PhD 

Pituitary Tumor Lab
Principal Investigator: Omkar Ijare, PhD

Tumor DNA Damage and Repair Lab
Principal Investigator: Shashank Hambarde, PhD

 

The Houston Institute for Neuropsychological Knowledge Lab 
Principal Investigator: Mario F. Dulay, PhD

 

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