Richard Smeye, PhD
Professor
Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Parkinson’s Center
Department of Neuroscience
Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience

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Richard Smeye, PhD
Professor
Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Parkinson’s Center
Department of Neuroscience
Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience
Publications
- COVID-19 and possible links with Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism: from bench to bedside
- Synaptic alterations and immune response are sexually dimorphic in a non-pertussis toxin model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
- Infection with mosquito-borne alphavirus induces selective loss of dopaminergic neurons, neuroinflammation and widespread protein aggregation
- Two distinct GUCY2C circuits with PMV (hypothalamic) and SN/VTA (midbrain) origin
- Exogenous activation of tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 promotes recovery from sensory and motor disease in a model of multiple sclerosis
University Appointment
Professor, Jack and Vickie Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, 2016
Research & Clinical Interests
Cell Biology of Parkinson’s Disease