Alan Faden, MD
Principal investigator/ David S. Brown Professor in Trauma
MD: University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Internship: Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
Residency: University of California, San Francisco, USA (UCSF)
Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Neuroinflammation, Central Nervous System Injury, Neuroprotection, Cell Death and Recovery, Spinal Cord Injury, Chronic Pain
Gary Fiskum, PhD
Principal Investigator/ Professor Emeritus
BA: Zoology, UCLA Los Angeles, USA
PhD: Biochemistry, St. Louis University, St. Louis, USA
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Interests: Mitochondrial bioenergetics, Apoptosis, Traumatic brain injury
Tibor Kristian, PhD
Principal Investigator/Professor
RNDR: University of P.J. Safarik, Slovakia
PhD: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Interest: Neurodegeneration, mitochondrial and cellular bioenergetics
Marta Lipinski, PhD
Principal Investigator / Associate Professor
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Fellowship: Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Interests: Autophagy, Lipid Metabolism, Neuroinflammation, Neurodegeneration, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Aging, Neurodegenerative Disease
Brian Polster, PhD
Principal Investigator/ Professor
BA: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Biology)
PhD: University of Maryland School of Medicine (Neuroscience)
Postdoctoral Fellowship: John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Bogdan Stoica, MD
Principal Investigator/Associate Professor
MD: Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania
Internship: Fundeni Clinical Hospital Bucharest, Romania
Fellowship: Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Bethesda, USA
Interests: Mechanisms of Secondary Injury Following TBI, Neuronal Cell Death, Neuroinflammation
Junfang Wu, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator/ Professor
MD: Medicine, Nanchang University School of Medicine, China
MS: Pharmacology, Nanchang University School of Medicine, China
PhD: Neuropharmacology, Nanjing Medical University, China
Postdoc Fellowship: Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Postdoc Fellowship: NIH, Bethesda, USA
Interests: Spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, aging, dementia, neuropathic pain, inflammation, neuroprotection, autophagy-lysosomal, extracellular vesicles, Hv1/NOX2/ROS, TrkB.T1, motor function, cognition, depression, olfaction, microglia, neurons, astrocytes.