Research Areas - Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Faculty

Mark W. Albers, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Frederick W. Alt, PhD

Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Amit Anand, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Mark Andermann, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Matthew Anderson, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Ovidiu Andronesi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Mandana Arbab, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital

Paola Arlotta, PhD

Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University

Brian Bacskai, PhD

Professor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Bruce Bean, PhD

Robert Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Nicholas Bellono, PhD

Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Bruno A. Benitez, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

Rachel Bennett, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Larry Benowitz, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

Sabina Berretta, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Vadim Y. Bolshakov, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Richard Born, MD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Xandra Breakefield, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Randy Buckner, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Harvard University

Oleg Butovsky, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Michael C. Carroll, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Sydney S. Cash, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Constance Cepko, PhD

Professor of Genetics and Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

Xi Chen, PhD

Associate Physicist
McLean Hospital

Zheng-Yi Chen, D. Phil

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Harvard Medical School

Sundari Chetty, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Isaac Chiu, PhD

Professor
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School

Bruce Cohen, MD, PhD

Director
Program for Neuropsychiatric Research
McLean Hospital

Jonathan Cohen, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Kathryn Commons, PhD

Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School

David P. Corey, PhD

Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science
Harvard Medical School

Michael Crickmore, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Nikolaos Daskalakis, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Benjamin L. de Bivort, PhD

Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Josefina Inés del Mármol, PhD

Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Michael Do, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Ryan Doan, PhD, FACMG

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Genetics and Genomics
Boston Children's Hospital

Min Dong, PhD

Assistant Professor of Urology
Harvard Medical School

Catherine Dulac, PhD

Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Harvard University

Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD

Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Sean Eddy, PhD

Ellmore C. Patterson Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics
Harvard University

Carolyn Elya, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Florian Engert, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Elif Engin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Elizabeth Engle, MD

Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

Michela Fagiolini, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Saranna Fanning, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Jordan Farrell, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Mel Feany, PhD

Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Brielle Ferguson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Daniel J. Finley, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Gordon Fishell, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

John Flanagan, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Rachelle Gaudet, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Gwenaelle Geleoc, PhD

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Harvard Medical School

David Ginty, PhD

Chair and Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Robert Gonzalez, MD

Director
Mood Disorders Division
Outpatient Clinical Services
Department of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Lisa Goodrich, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Michael E. Greenberg, PhD

Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Anna Greka, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Chenghua Gu, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

James Gusella, PhD

Bullard Professor of Neurogenetics
Harvard Medical School

Steven Gygi, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Penelope Hallett, PhD

Director
Neuroregeneration Research Institute
McLean Hospital

Wade Harper, PhD

Chair
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Jakob Hartmann, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Xi He, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Zhigang He, PhD, BM

Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

Maxwell Heiman, PhD

Associate Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Takao Hensch, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Daniel Hochbaum, PhD

Member of the Faculty
Harvard Medical School

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Hopi Hoekstra, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Jeffrey R. Holt, PhD

Professor of Otolaryngology & Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital

Jun Huh, PhD

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Harvard Medical School

Bradley Hyman, MD, PhD

John B. Penney
Jr. Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Ole Isacson, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Pascal Kaeser, MD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Joshua Kaplan, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Rakesh Karmacharya, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Raymond J. Kelleher, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Vikram Khurana, PhD, MBBS

Tracy T. Batchelor Endowed Chair in Neurology and Chief of the Movement Disorders Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Marc Kirschner, PhD

John Franklin Enders University Professor of Systems Biology and Chair
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Allon M. Klein, PhD

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

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Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

Marion V. Nelson Professor & Chair
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School

Dong Kong, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Boston Children's Hospital

Petros Koumoutsakos, PhD

Herbert S. Winokur Jr.
Professor of Computing in Science and Engineering
Harvard University
Harvard University

Andrew Kruse, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School

Subhash Kulkarni, PhD

Faculty
Harvard Medical School

Samuel Kunes, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Louis M. Kunkel, PhD

Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Matthew LaVoie, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

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Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, PhD, JD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School

Jong-Min Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Wei-Chung Allen Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Maria Lehtinen, PhD

Hannah C. Kinney MD
Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research
Boston Children's Hospital

Maofu Liao, PhD

Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Stephen Liberles, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Jeff Lichtman, MD, PhD

Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Zhicheng (Carl) Lin, PhD

Director
Laboratory of Psychiatric Neurogenomics
McLean Hospital

Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Jia Liu, PhD

Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Eng Lo, PhD

Professor
Departments of Neurology and Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Mary Loeken, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine (Physiology)
Joslin Diabetes Center

Bradford Lowell, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Kun Ping Lu, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Ying Lu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Natalia Machado, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Jeffrey Macklis, MD, DHST

Max and Anne Wien Professor of Life Sciences
Harvard University

Evan Macosko, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Joseph Majzoub, MD

Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Sean Megason, PhD

Professor of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Michael Miller, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD

Assistant Professor
Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital

Victor Navarro, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Bence Olveczky, PhD

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Lauren Orefice, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Emily Osterweil, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital

Tracey Petryshen, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Naomi Pierce, PhD

Hessel Professor of Biology
Harvard University

Annapurna Poduri, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD

Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Francisco Javier Quintana, PhD

Associate Scientist
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Samuel Rabkin, PhD

Thomas A. Pappas Professor in Neurosciences and Professor of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School

Sharad Ramanathan, PhD

Llura and Gordon Gund Professor of Neurosciences
Harvard University

Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Wade Regehr, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

David E. Reich, PhD

Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

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William R. Renthal, MD, PhD

Director of Research
John R. Graham Headache Center
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Dragana Rogulja, PhD

Associate Professor in Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Lee Rubin, PhD

Professor
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University

Amar Sahay, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Joshua R. Sanes, PhD

Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Clifford B. Saper, MD, PhD

James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Thomas E. Scammell, MD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Clemens Scherzer, MD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Alexander Schier, PhD

Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Thomas Schwarz, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Ihn Sik Seong, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Khalid Shah, MS, PhD

Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School

Jie Shen, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

David A. Sinclair, PhD, AO

Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Edward Smith, MD, MBA

R. Michael Scott Chair in Neurosurgery
Boston Children's Hospital

Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD

MGH Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience; Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Yuyu Song, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Kai-Christian Sonntag, MD, PhD

Director
Laboratory for Translational Research on Neurodegeneration
Program for Neuropsychiatric Research
McLean Hospital

Hanno Steen, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School

Judith Steen, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Beth Stevens, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Gary Strichartz, PhD

Professor of Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School

Anne Takesian, PhD

Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Xin Tang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Boston Children's Hospital

Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD

Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

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Angélica Torres-Berrío, PhD

Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Naoshige Uchida, PhD

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

David Van Vactor, PhD

Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Anju Vasudevan, PhD

Director
Angiogenesis and Brain Development Laboratory
McLean Hospital

Humsa Venkatesh, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brian Wainger, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anesthesiology
Harvard Medical School

James Walker, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Charles Weitz, MD, PhD

Robert Henry Pfeiffer Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Amanda Whipple, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Harvard University

Jessica L. Whited, PhD

Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University

Mary Whitman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Boston Children's Hospital

Rachel Wolfson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School

Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Bruce Yankner, MD, PhD

Professor of Genetics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Gary Yellen, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Timothy Yu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Yun Zhang, PhD

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Xiao Zhen Zhou, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD

David B. Arnold Professor of Science
Harvard University

Theodore Zwang, PhD

Assistant Investigator
Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Karl Koehler, PhD

Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Harvard Medical School

David R. Liu, PhD

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

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Viral infection and resistance in the brain. Banner image courtesy of Tyler Krause (Lab of Connie Cepko, Harvard Medical School)