Faculty Profiles

Bass, Caroline

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral pharmacology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Drug abuse
Specialty/Research Focus: Gene Expression; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Signal Transduction; Pathophysiology
Bradford, Peter

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Cell growth, differentiation and development; Endocrinology; Gene Expression; Medical Education Research; Molecular genetics; Signal Transduction; Toxicology; Reproductive Endocrinology
Clark, Stewart

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Neuroscience
Dietz, David

PhD

Professor; Chair

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral pharmacology; Cytoskeleton and cell motility; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Drug abuse; Signal Transduction; Transcription and Translation
Dominguez-Lopez, Sergio

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Ageing; Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavioral pharmacology; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Image Processing and Analysis; Mitochondria; Neurobiology; Neuroimaging Analysis; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Pain; Pathophysiology; Toxicology; Transcriptomics; Translational Research
Dubocovich, Margarita

PhD, FASPET, FACNP

SUNY Distinguished Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Circadian Rhythm/Chronobiology; Neuropharmacology; Drug Design; Drug Targeting; Signal Transduction
Haj-Dahmane, Samir

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Electrophysiology; Ethanol Pharmacology; Imaging In Vivo; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Lipid Homeostasis; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Signal Transduction
Halvorsen, Stanley

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Toxicology; Transcription and Translation; Neurodegenerative disorders
Harris, Julie

Ph.D.

Lecturer

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Behavioral pharmacology; Neuroimmunology; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience
Klein, Amanda

PhD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Neuroscience; Electrophysiology; Metabolism; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Pain; Pharmacotherapy
Laychock, Suzanne

PhD

Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Endocrinology; Gene Expression; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction
Li, Jun-Xu

MD, PhD

Professor; Vice Chair for Research

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Neurobiology; Drug abuse
Oldani, Michael

Clinical Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Community Health Research; Global Health; Collaborative and Integrated Care; Medical Anthropology; Medical Education Research; Pharmacotherapy; Real-world approaches; Team Science; Psychiatry; Psychosomatic Medicine; Qualitative Methods; Social Determinants of Health; Workforce Development
Paez, Pablo

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Ion channel kinetics and structure; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology
Rabin, Richard

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Drug abuse; Signal Transduction; Toxicology
Shen, Roh-Yu

PhD

Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral Neuroscience; Brain Research; Drug Abuse; Electrophysiology; Ethanol Pharmacology; Glia - Physiology & Pathophysiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Neurobiology; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Neuroscience
Shubert, David

PhD

Assistant Dean Biomedical Undergraduate Education; Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Genomics and proteomics; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Toxicology
Sim, Fraser

PhD

Professor; Neuroscience Program Director

Specialty/Research Focus: Myelin Diseases; Neuroscience; Stem Cells; Neurodegenerative disorders
Thanos, Panayotis

PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Collaborating Faculty

Canty, John

MD

Clinical Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Apoptosis and cell death; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Imaging; Cardiac pharmacology; Gene Therapy; Genomics and proteomics; Cardiology; Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Imaging In Vivo; Implementation Science; Models - cell and animal; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular Imaging Techniques; Pathophysiology; Preclinical MRI; Proteomics; Quantitative Histology; Stem Cells; Team Science; Translational imaging; Translational Research; Translational Research
Dandona, Paresh

MD, PhD

Clinical Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Endocrinology; Endocrinology; Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Ignatowski, Tracey

PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Immunology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Protein Function and Structure; Signal Transduction; Neuroimmunology
Izzo, Joseph

MD

Clinical Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiac pharmacology; Cardiovascular Disease; Internal Medicine; Nephrology; Pathophysiology; Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Lang, Jennifer

MD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cell growth, differentiation and development; Gene Expression; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Signal Transduction; Stem Cells
Reynolds, Jessica

PhD

Research Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Immunology; Infectious Disease; Neurobiology; Neuropharmacology; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology
Sharma, Umesh

M.D., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Cardiac pharmacology; Drug Development; Gene Expression; Cardiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Inflammation; Preclinical MRI; Translational imaging; Internal Medicine; Radiation Oncology
Sullivan, John

M.D., Ph.D.

Research Professor HS

Specialty/Research Focus: Bioinformatics; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Gene Expression; Gene Therapy; Imaging In Vivo; Inherited Metabolic Disorders; Membrane Biophysics; Metalloenzymes; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Molecular genetics; Multimodal Imaging Technology; Nanoparticles; Protein Folding; Retina – retinal disease and therapy; RNA; Transcription and Translation; Vision science; Gene Delivery; Gene Therapy; Molecular diagnostics; Neurodegenerative disorders; Ophthalmology; Pathophysiology; Pediatric Ophthalmology; Retina

Volunteer Faculty

Babetto, Elisabetta, PHD
Barnett, Allen
Daniels, Derek, PHD
Feigin, Michael, PHD
Knaak, James
Meyer, Paul, PHD
Paul, Matthew, PSYD
Sikka, Harish