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Directors, Laboratory Heads and Associate Members
The Farber Institute for Neuroscience brings together basic and clinical scientists from many disciplines. More than a dozen academic and clinical departments at Thomas Jefferson University and the nearby Nemours Biomedical Research/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children are represented among the Institute's research faculty.
Interim Director Lorraine Iacovitti, Ph.D., investigates the regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression, and is developing cell-transplant therapies using a pure population of dopamine neurons her laboratory has generated from stem and neural precursor cells. Animal testing in rat and primate models of Parkinson's disease is underway.
The heads of Farber's four primary laboratories and its 36 Associate Members are also accomplished senior researchers whose research spans basic, translational and clinical science, with a strong emphasis on molecular and cellular neurobiology and genetics.
The links below provide more information on the research of Farber scientists.
| Associate Members |
Affiliated Departments at Jefferson
(or elsewhere as noted) |
| Emad S. Alnemri, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Carol L. Beck, Ph.D. |
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics |
| Jeffrey L. Benovic, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| George C. Brainard, Ph.D. |
Neurology |
| Manuel Covarrubias, M.D., Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Leonard Eisenman, Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Gerald Grunwald, Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Richard Horn, Ph.D. |
Physiology |
| Ya-Ming Hou, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Jeffrey I. Joseph, D.O. |
Anesthesiology |
| Lawrence Kenyon, M.D., Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Michael P. King, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| Jennifer Lofland, Pharm.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. |
Health Policy
Medicine |
| Paolo Manelli |
Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| John L. Melvin, M.D. |
Rehabilitative Medicine |
| Diane E. Merry, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| George F. Murphy, M.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy, & Cell Biology
Medical Education
Jefferson Center for Dermatopathology |
| Ashwin Patkar, M.D. |
Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| Roger J. Pomerantz, M.D., FACP |
Infectious Diseases |
| Edmund Pribitkin, M.D. |
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery |
| Satish Rattan, D.V.M. |
Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
| Robert F. Rogers, Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Raymond F. Regan, M.D., FACEP |
Emergency Medicine |
| Judith L. Ross, M.D. |
Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology |
| A.M. Rostami, M.D., Ph.D. |
Neurology |
| Roseann C. Schaaf, Ph.D., FAOTA |
Occupational Therapy |
| Carolyn Schanen, M.D., Ph.D. |
Human Genetics Research
Nemours Biomedical Research/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children |
| Jay S. Schneider, Ph.D. |
Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology |
| Matthias Schnell, Ph.D. |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
| Joseph I. Tracy, Ph.D. |
Neurology
Radiology |
| Jeffery L. Twiss, M.D., Ph.D. |
Neuroscience Research Laboratory
Nemours Biomedical Research/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children |
Michael J. Vergare, M.D.
Dean
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Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Jefferson Medical College |
| Stephen P. Weinstein, Ph.D. |
Psychiatry and Human Behavior,
Division of Substance Abuse |
| David A. Wenger, Ph.D. |
Neurology
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director, Lysosomal Storage Diseases Testing Laboratory |
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