Research Team
Our research team — including UB’s Daniel Sirica, MD; Allison Brashear, MD, MBA; and Ralph Benedict, PhD — has decades of research experience and invests significant energy into generating valuable insights.
To conduct our ATP1A3 research, we have assembled a group of professionals with a variety of skills and backgrounds.
Our trusted team of renowned medical experts is committed to expanding the world’s understanding of rare movement disorders.
Researchers on our team are from:
- University at Buffalo, a flagship university of the SUNY system — a designation that underscores UB’s reputation as a premier public research university
- University of Miami, which ranks first in Florida for research funding from the National Institutes of Health
- Harvard University, which has a medical school that’s been making paradigm-shifting discoveries and achieving “firsts” since 1799
Principal Investigator
Vice President for Health Sciences, University at Buffalo; Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Professor, Department of Neurology
Lead biostatistician on this study; chair of the Department of Biostatistics
Clinical assistant professor, Department of Neurology
