Faculty

Faculty and their Research Interests

• Karen Hsiao Ashe
  Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
  Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience
  Director, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
• J. Riley McCarten, MD
  Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
  Director, Memory Clinic, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
• Susan McPherson, PhD, ABPP, LP
  Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology
• Patricia Schaber, PhD, OTR/L
  Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy
• Kathleen Zahs, PhD 
  Senior Research Associate, Department of Neurology
  Associate Research Professor, Department of Physiology
  Director, Translational Division, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care

Collaborating Faculty

• James Cleary, PhD
  GRECC (Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center),
  Minneapolis Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
  Behavioral psychology and pharmacology in Alzheimer rodent models.
• Derek Hook, PhD
  Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
  Director, High Throughput Screening Core
• Dezhi Liao, PhD 
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Glutamate receptor physiology and plasticity in CNS disorders and disease.
• Kelvin Lim, MD
  Department of Psychiatry
  White matter microstructural analysis in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
• Eric Newman, PhD
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Glial cell physiology, Neuron-glial interactions.
• Michael Walters, PhD
  Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
  Director, Lead and Probe Discovery:  Evaluation of active compounds from high-throughput screening for their potential as leads for drug discovery or probes of biochemical mechanisms.  Initial optimization of a lead compound's physical properties as it is developed into a potential drug.
• Carrie Wilmot, PhD
  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
  Protein enzymes containing catalytic metal ions and/or post-translational modifications in human health and disease, with a focus upon macromolecular X-ray crystallography and spectroscopic techniques in crystal and in solution.
• LiLian Yuan, PhD
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Synaptic plasticity in health and disease, with a specific focus on intrinsic pathways within and connections between brain regions that are involved in learning and memory, such as hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex .