(listed alphabetically)
Konstantin Birukov, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator/Professor
MD: Moscow State Medical School
PhD: Biochemistry, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Cardiology Research Center
Dr. Birukov's Lab | Dr. Birukov's Faculty Profile
Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHA
Anesthesiology Endowed Professor of Translational Research
Vice-Chair For Research
Co-Director of the STAR Center
Email: wchao@som.umaryland.edu
MD: Hunan Medical College, Changsha, China
PhD: University of Texas HSC, San Antonio, USA
Postdoc: University of California, San Diego, USA
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Interests: Innate immunity, sepsis, trauma, myocardial ischemic injury
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
Peter Hu, MS,PhD
Co-Director/ Professor
MS: University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
PhD: University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Interests: Hemorrhagic Shock, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Big Data Analytics, Machin Learning, Real-time patient status estimation and outcome prediction.
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
Peter Rock, MD, MBA, FCCM
Professor
BA: Johns Hopkins University
MD: Johns Hopkins University
Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Acute lung injury, septic shock, pulmonary circulation, perioperative myocardial ischemia, medical informatics and post-operative respiratory complications
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.
Lin Zou, MD, PhD
Principal investigator/Associate Professor
MD: Xiangya School of Medicine, Changsha, China
PhD: Xiangya School of Medicine, Changsha, China
Postdoc: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Interests: Sepsis and lung injury