Research Tracks & Mentors
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One of the greatest strengths of the UC San Diego site is the involvement of our highly successful research faculty who will serve as mentors for the LAUNCH program. UC San Diego is
one of the nation's top research institutions, and our research faculty mentors have a variety of expertise in neuroscience research.
Potential Research Mentors
A sample of potential research mentors, by research track, from a campus-wide pool for the UC San Diego LAUNCH program are found in the table and links below.
If you have any questions, please email
hsfacaffairs@ucsd.edu.
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Mark Bondi, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neuroimaging techniques, foci on brainstem alterations related neurodegenerative disease and mild cognative impairment
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James B. Brewer, MD, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Advanced imaging approaches to neurodegenerative diseases and disorders of memory
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Mariana Cherner, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neurobehavioral consequences of HIV and substance use
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Howard Feldman, MD
| Neurosciences
| Cognitive disorders associated with aging and in the neurodegenerative dementias
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Douglas R Galasko, MD
| Neurosciences
| Risk factors and mechanisms that underlie Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders, in particular Lewy Body Disease
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Hector M Gonzalez, PhD*,§
| Neurosciences
| Neurocognition and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among divers Latinos
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Robert Hevner, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Developmental neuroscience to clinical neuropathology- neocortex to entorhinal cortex
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William Kremen, PhD | Psychiatry
| Cognitive, psychosocial, psychiatric symptom, alcohol use, health/medical, sleep quality, neuroendocrine, genotyping, biomarker ,and multi-modal neuroimaging assessments
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Andrea LaCroix, PhD
| Family Medicine and Public Health
| Health-related behaviors, common medications, biomarkers, new therapeutics, and genetic risk factors in aging men and women across a wide spectrum of disorders including Alzheimer's
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Maria Marquine, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neurocognitive decline among older Hispanics
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Linda McEvoy, PhD
| Radiology, Family Medicine and Public Health
| Understanding of cognitive changes in healthy and pathological aging, genetic risk factors, sex differences and biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer's disease
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David Salmon, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Cognitive deficits associated with Dementia with Lewy Bodies
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*Track Leader;
§Executive Committee
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Susan Ackerman, PhD
| Cellular and Molecular Medicine
| Molecular pathways controlling neuron homeostasis
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Wendy Marie Campana, PhD
| Anesthesia
| Molecular and Cellular Response to Nerve Injury and Chronic Neuropathic Pain
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Richard Daneman, PhD
| Pharmacology, Neuroscience
| Cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms of blood-brain barrier development / dysfunction in neurological diseases
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Paula Desplats, PhD§
| Neurosciences & Pathology
| Neuroepigenetic mechanisms in disease
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Joseph Gleeson, MD
| Neurosciences & Pediatrics
| Genetic and cell biological basis of brain development
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Vivian Hook, PhD
| Neurosciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Activity
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Alysson Muotri, PhD
| Pharmacology, Neurosciences
| Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Autism and other Developmental Disorders
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Robert Rissman, PhD*,§
| Neurosciences
| Molecular Neuropathology and Biomarker Discovery
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Chengbiao Wu, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Mechanisms of Axonopathy and Neurodegeneration
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee
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Matthew Banghart, PhD
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neuromodulation; nociception in CNS
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Brenda Bloodgood, PhD
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Synapse biology & gene regulation; circuit plasticity
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Hollis Cline, PhD
| Neurosciences, TSRI
| Architecture, development, and plasticity of brain circuits
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Timothy Genter, PhD
| Psychology, Social Sci
| Computational approaches in audiotry processing
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Shelley Halpain, PhD*,§
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neural circuit development & degeneration
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David Kleinfeld, PhD
| Physics, Physical Sci
| Sensorimotor neuroscience; brain microcirculation; neurotechnology
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Takaki Komiyama, PhD
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Cellular resolution functional imaging of neuronal ensembles
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Jill Leutgeb, PhD§
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neural basis of memory formation and retrieval at the systems level
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Padmini Rangamani, PhD
| School of Engineering
| Computational biology & biophysics related to synapse functiion
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Kay Tye, PhD
| Salk Institute
| Brain circuits of emotion, motivation, social behaviors
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee
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