Andrew D. Huberman

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Neurobiology
Associate Professor (By courtesy), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Member, Bio-X
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Honors & Awards

Cogan Award for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, ARVO (2017)
Pew Biomedical Scholar, Pew Charitable Trusts (2013-2017)
McKnight Scholar, McKnight Endowment Fund (2013-2016)
Catalyst for a Cure Investigator, Glaucoma Research Foundation (2012- present)
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, HHWF Foundation (2006-2009)

Professional Education

PhD, University of California, Davis, Neuroscience (2004)
MA, University of California, Berkeley, Neurobiology and Behavior (2000)
BA, UC Santa Barbara (1998)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

1) We study neural regeneration with the goal of developing treatments to prevent and reverse vision loss. (e.g., Huberman, Nature 2020; Laha and Huberman, Science, 2017; Lim et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2016).

2) We are parsing the neural circuits for anxiety, and visually-driven autonomic arousal, (e.g., Salay et al., Nature, 2018; Yilmaz-Balban et al., Current Biology, 2021).

2022-23 Courses

The Nervous System
NBIO 206 (Win)

Independent Studies
- Directed Reading in Neurobiology
  NBIO 198 (Aut, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading in Neurobiology
  NBIO 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading in Neurosciences
  NEPR 299 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Graduate Research
  NBIO 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Research
  NEPR 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Medical Scholars Research
  NBIO 370 (Spr, Sum)
- Undergraduate Research
  NBIO 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)

Prior Year Courses

2021-22 Courses

The Nervous System
NBIO 206 (Win)

2020-21 Courses

The Nervous System
NBIO 206 (Win)

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