Richard DiMarchi, Ph.D.
Gill Chair and Professor
Research Interests: Structure-activity relationships of macromolecules, chemical biology, bioorganic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology
Faculty
Norbert Hajos, Ph.D.
Gill Chair and Professor
Research Interests: Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy, information processing in cortical microcircuits at cellular and network levels.
Andrea Hohmann, Ph.D.
Gill Chair and Professor
Research interests: Functional roles of the brain’s own cannabis-like (endocannabinoid) system in the nervous system; mechanisms of pain and analgesia; mechanisms for separating analgesic efficacy and drug abuse liability; mechanisms of action of drugs of abuse; mechanisms for blocking opioid tolerance, reward, and physical dependence; disruption of protein-protein interactions downstream of NMDARs for therapeutic benefit
Cary Lai, Ph.D.
Gill Scholar and Professor
Research interests: Developmental neurobiology; receptor protein-tyrosine kinase signaling; neuregulin-ErbB signaling in the nervous system
Hui-Chen Lu, Ph.D.
Director, Gill Center and Professor
Research interests: Understanding the development, plasticity, maintenance, and aging of neural circuitry; gaining molecular insights into how neural activity-dependent mechanisms shape neural wiring; elucidating endogenous neuroprotection mechanisms to direct the development of therapeutic interventions to slow cognitive decline or neuronal loss in neurodegenerative conditions
Ken Mackie, M.D.
Gill Chair and Professor
Research interests: Regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling, interactions among phytocannabinoids and terpenes, role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity, novel cannabinoid receptors
Dan Tracey, Ph.D.
Gill Chair and Professor
Research interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of nociception (pain), molecular and cellular mechanism of touch sensation, development of tools for neuroscience research, high throughput methods for behavioral analysis, molecular genetics, confocal microscopy, electrophysiology
Research Scientists
Jui-Yen Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Research interests: Cortical brain circuitry formation, neurobiology, redox biology, neurodegenerative disease
Anna Kalinovsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Research interests: Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural circuit assembly and function, role of cannabinoid signals in cerebellar circuits and their specific behavioral outputs
Yvonne Lai, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Research interests: Developing novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of neurological disorders using disruptors of protein-protein interactions
Stephanie Mauthner, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
Research interests: How sensory neurons detect painful stimuli, mechanosensory transduction machinery, ion channel function, and ion channel trafficking in pain neurons
Piotr Mroz, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metablic disease
Alex Straiker, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Research interests: Physiology of cannabinoid receptors in neurons, cannabinoids in synaptic transmission, cannibinoids in ocular health
Kishore Thalluri, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology and developing novel peptide - based therapeutic strategies for the treatment of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
Jim Wager-Miller, M.S.
Associate Research Scientist
Research interests: Cellular signaling methods development, best practices for undergraduate lab education
Fa Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metabolic disease
Yujin Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Research interests: Peptide structure-activity relationships, chemical biotechnology, combinatorial peptide therapeutics, novel treatments for metablic disease