Faculty
Research Faculty—Neurosurgery
Program Director/Department Chair: Satish Krishnamurthy, MD, MCh, FAANS
- Blair Calancie, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoperative electrophysiology.
- Thomas Coyle, MD
Clinical ProfessorResearch Interests:Cell biological approaches to understand the cellular mechanisms underlying the development and treatment of malignant brain tumors.
- Daniel Tso, PhD
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests:Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques. Adult cortical plasticity.
- Mariano Viapiano, PhD
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests:Brain cancer therapies; tumor microenvironment; tumor invasion; extracellular matrix; nano-therapeutics; immunotherapies
- Li-Ru Zhao, PhD
ProfessorResearch Interests:Brain plasticity; molecular, cellular and functional mechanisms of brain repair in traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and CADASIL. Pathological mechanisms underlying the development and progression of brain injury, neurodegenerative and genetic diseases.