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Dan Christoffel
Basic Life Res Scientist, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio Our experiences come to shape our future behaviors and can having lasting effects on our quality of life. My research aims to understand how chronic exposure to particular stimuli (i.e. stress, food, drugs) alters the functioning of specific neural circuits. Following identification of the relevant circuits, I investigate the mechanisms that regulate these experience-dependent changes. This ultimately aids in our understanding of how maladaptive changes in brain function occur and how these changes result in psychiatric disorders.
My current focus is on specific neural circuits involved in reward processing and feeding behavior. I am discovering how various excitatory inputs to the nucleus accumbens, a critical brain node involved in processing the salience of events, modulate reward - related behaviors utilizing converging lines of inquiry. Specifically, I observe neuronal activity in awake behaving mice, and assess the mechanisms underlying changes in activity with electrophysiology. Finally, I then modulate specific circuits using optogenetics, a technique that provides spatio-temporal control over genetically identified cells, to determine the causal role of these circuits in reward-related behavior. -
Uran Ferizi
Basic Life Research Scientist, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio 2020 - now, Stanford University School of Medicine
2014?2019, New York University School of Medicine
2007?2008, JP Morgan/Bear Stearns, London UK
2002?2003, Halcrow Engineering Consultancy, UK -
Lisa M. Jack
Academic Prog Prof 2, Emergency Medicine
Current Role at Stanford Primary role at Stanford is to support the Strategic Plan for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Goals include building research infrastructure to support all EMed investigators, leveraging the strength of Stanford University to produce high-impact and innovative emergency care research, and supporting the efforts to become a national leader in academic emergency medicine research.
Also involved with supporting the efforts of the Twin Registry at Stanford - a valuable resource for research into the influences of genetics on a variety of traits and conditions. -
Danny DongWon Kwon
Clinical Research Coordinator, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Current Role at Stanford Clinical Research Coordinator at the Center on Stress and Health, Stanford Medicine, led by principal investigator, Dr. David Spiegel.
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Michael Schneider
Adjunct Professor, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio Bret Schneider specializes in brain neuromodulation technologies for interventional psychiatry, neurology and regenerative medicine. He has designed, built and tested more than one hundred medical instruments, from computerized surgical navigation systems to implantable devices and biologics. As a technology company leader, he has founded and built several start-ups, including venture-capital-backed Cervel Neurotech Inc. Bret earned a BA cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, an MD degree from Rush University in Chicago, and graduated a clinical residency in Psychiatry at UCLA. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neurosurgical stereotactic radiosurgery and a post-doctoral fellowship in Advanced Psychiatry, both at Stanford University. Presently, he is Chief Medical Officer for Zap Surgical Systems, Inc., where he is developing stereotactic radiosurgery as a method for precise, non-destructive, non-invasive modulation of dysfunctional brain circuits. Bret is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery at Stanford University. He maintains a clinical medical practice focused on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).
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Pablo Villoslada
Adjunct Professor, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio Pablo Villoslada received his MD at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1990. He completed the speciality in neurology in 1995 at the Hospital Vall d?Hebron (Spain) and the PhD in Neuroimmunology in 1996 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He moved to the University of California, San Francisco (US) as a postdoctoral fellow returning to Barcelona in 1998 and he worked as Assistant Professor of the University of Navarra from 2001 to 2008. He became Group leader of the Neuroimmunology group of the Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) ? Hospital Clinic - University of Barcelona, Spain, in 2009. From 2014 to 2017 he became Adjunct Professor at the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. From 2017 to 2018 he worked a Medical Director of Neuroinflammation at Genentech. Since October 2018 is adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded Health Engineering (imaging software) and Bionure (drug development CNS), and being venture partner with Alta Life Sciences and Spire Bioventure. He joined the neurosciences team at Stanford University in October 2018.
Pablo Villoslada has been active in the Neurosciences and brain diseases research for more than 20 years contributing to the application of systems biology to neurological diseases, development of new therapies or biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases, and developing new neuroimaging technologies for monitoring brain diseases. He has published more than 170 scientific articles in journals in the field of neurology and has been granted 9 patents in biomarkers and new therapies for brain diseases. He has also obtained 5 EU grants and several others from international foundations. -
Jessica Walsh
Basic Life Research Scientist, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio My career in neuroscience spans 17 years of work in diverse areas of the mental health field. There is a clear trajectory of my commitment to investigating mental health disorders seen from the various positions have that led to my current stage. My training has endowed me with a strong skill set for interrogating neurobiological systems. In addition, conducting research in numerous distinct settings has left me with a well-developed scientific philosophy, and a nuanced understanding of different mental health disorders, ranging from Alzheimer?s disease, to Depression, to Autism Spectrum Disorder, all of which are complex brain disorders with severe public health implications.
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Qingyu Zhao
Research Scientist, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Bio I am generally interested in using image analysis techniques to improve detection, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. My research interests particularly lie in the areas of non-linear statistics and machine learning applied to translational neuroscience.
