Basic Neuroscience Related Content

Staff Profile: Ross J. Baldessarini, MD

A career investigator of the NIMH from 1970 to 2001, Ross J. Baldessarini, MD, is an internationally known research psychopharmacologist with many contributions to the actions of antipsychotic and mood-altering medicines and has trained over 160 laboratory and clinical investigators. He joined...

Staff Profile: Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD

Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD, has over 25 years of experience investigating molecular and developmental neurobiology of the midbrain dopamine neuronal system in health and disease, focusing on elucidating the transcriptional mechanisms underlying development and maintenance of dopamine neurons. Based on basic...

Staff Profile: Pierre R. Leblanc, PhD

Pierre R. Leblanc, PhD, received his BSc in Biochemistry from McGill University and his PhD in Biochemistry from McMaster University, studying membranes biogenesis. He performed his post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on the gamma/delta T-cell receptor...

Staff Profile: Miles Cunningham, MD, PhD

Miles G. Cunningham, MD, PhD, earned a PhD in 1993 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in “Transplantation Strategies for the Analysis of Brain Development and Repair.” He earned an MD in 1995 from Harvard Medical School, with a special interest in neuropsychiatry and behavioral...

Staff Profile: Kai-Christian Sonntag, MD, PhD

As a graduate of University of Heidelberg Medical School, Dr. Sonntag studied the molecular biology of viruses, and as a research fellow at the Transplantation Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, he conducted research in transplantation immunology. In 2000, he joined McLean...

Staff Profile: Anna W. Sromek, PhD

Anna W. Sromek, PhD, received her BS in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1996, and PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005. She was a NIDA post-doctoral research fellow at McLean Hospital from 2008 to 2010, and a recipient of the Alfred Pope Award for Young...

Staff Profile: Serdar Aslan, PhD

Serdar Aslan, PhD, works at the intersection of the neuroscience, machine learning, deep learning, signals and systems, various mathematical areas, control theory, computational optimal transport graph theory, random matrix theory, and detection and estimation theory. He specializes in various...

Staff Profile: Mark A. Halko, PhD

Mark A. Halko, PhD, is a neuroscientist in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program at McLean Hospital. The goal of his research is to uncover how to close the gap between fundamental neuroscience and clinical treatments. His work focuses on what fundamental neuroscience reveals about...

Staff Profile: Taewoo Kim, PhD

Taewoo Kim, PhD, received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Molecular and Life Science at Hanyang University in South Korea. He joined the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital in 2019 as a post-doctoral research fellow.

Staff Profile: Nayeon Lee, PhD

Nayeon Lee, PhD, graduated and obtained a PhD in life science and biotechnology from the CHA University, Korea, in 2014. She joined the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 2016 as a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Lee’s primary research is focused on studying...

Staff Profile: Tae-Yoon Park, PhD

Tae-Yoon Park, PhD, received his MS and PhD from the Department of Biotechnology at Yonsei University in Korea. He further researched the pathophysiological functions of RORγt in autoimmune diseases as a post-doctoral fellow at Yonsei University from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, Dr. Park joined the...

Staff Profile: Gabriele Chelini, PhD

Gabriele Chelini, PhD, started his career in neuroscience joining a PhD program at the University of Florence, where he acquired expertise in working with in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology in mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders. During this training, he spent 8 months with the Hensch...

Staff Profile: Allison R. Foilb, PhD

Allison R. Foilb, PhD, focuses her research at the intersection of stress and learning. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College where she studied the development of the hormonal stress response. As a graduate student at Boston College, Dr. Foilb studied the neural mechanisms...

Staff Profile: Cameron D. Pernia, PhD

Cameron D. Pernia, PhD, has always been fascinated about how the most microscopic objects, molecules and ions, when organized precisely in the most complex machine known to exist, the human brain, create macroscopic phenomena such as behavior and cognition. These interests lead him to the lab of...

Staff Profile: Laura Erwin, PhD

Laura Erwin, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Preclinical Pharmacology Program at McLean Hospital. Her research focuses on elucidating the pharmacological mechanisms and neurobiology that mediate the behavioral effects of drug of abuse. Dr. Erwin received her PhD at LSU Health Sciences...

Staff Profile: Natalia Kolosowska, PhD

Natalia Kolosowska, PhD, obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Eastern Finland. During her graduate studies she investigated the immunomodulatory mechanisms in animal models of ischemic stroke. Her doctoral thesis sought to address the therapeutic potential of regulating...

Staff Profile: Isabelle M. Rosso, PhD

Isabelle M. Rosso is the director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Laboratory which studies neurobiological phenotypes of emotional disorders, and relates them to behavioral and clinical phenotypes. Psychiatric research has reached an exciting juncture where the neuroscience knowledge...

Staff Profile: Zhicheng (Carl) Lin, PhD

Dr. Lin is currently a grantee of both NIH and Fulbright, with a long-term interest in reducing the prevalence of substance abuse around the world. Dr. Lin’s research focuses on delineation of environmentally related genomic risks for substance abuse, through mapping out molecular pathways that...

Staff Profile: Vadim Bolshakov, PhD

Dr. Bolshakov received his PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and performed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Siegelbaum. He joined McLean Hospital in 1999 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor at...

Staff Profile: Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD

Since 2018, Torsten Klengel, MD, PhD, has been the director of the Translational Molecular Genomics Laboratory at McLean Hospital, with a secondary affiliation at the University of Goettingen, Germany. In 2014, Dr. Klengel joined the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, led by Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD...