Projects

James Barrett, PhD

• Targeting Type I IFN Signaling to Promote Recovery Following Brain Trauma in Aged Animals

Alan I Faden, MD

• Spinal Mechanisms Underlying SCI-Induced Pain: Implications for Targeted Therapy
• Reprogramming Microglial Epigenetic Pathways to Promote Cognitive Recovery After Brain Trauma
• Mechanisms of Inflammatory Related Brain Dysfunction after Spinal Cord Injury
• Bidirectional Brain-Gut Interactions, Chronic Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration after Traumatic Brain Injury 

Marta Lipinski, PhD

• Autophagy in Neuronal Cell Death after Spincal Cord Injury (SCI)
• Autophagy in Traumatic Brain Injury
• Regulation of Autophagy in Parkinson's Disease

Chinmoy Sarkar, PhD

• Role and Function of Peroxisomal Ether Phospholipid in TBI

Bogdan Stoica, MD

• Inhibition of Chronic Neuroinflammation Reduces Neurological Deficits after TBI
• MicroRNA-regulated Pathways Control Chronic-Progressive Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Following TBI
• Caloric Restriction Promotes Sustained Neurological Recovery after TBI
• NOX2 Drives Microglia-Dependent Neurodegeneration after TBI

Junfang Wu, BM, PhD

• Mechanisms of Motor Dysfunction in SCI
• SCI Neuropathic Pain
• Glia-Neurons Interaction in Neurotrauma
• Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy