Research Expertise & 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 infectious diseases 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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Bondi, Mark, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neuroimaging techniques, foci on brainstem alterations related neurodegenerative disease and mild cognative impairment
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Brewer, James B., MD, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Advanced imaging approaches to neurodegenerative diseases and disorders of memory
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Cherner, Mariana, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neurobehavioral consequences of HIV and substance use
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Feldman, Howard, MD
| Neurosciences
| Cognitive disorders associated with aging and in the neurodegenerative dementias
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Galasko, Douglas R, MD
| Neurosciences
| Risk factors and mechanisms that underlie Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders, in particular Lewy Body Disease
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Gonzalez, Hector M, PhD*,§
| Neurosciences
| Neurocognition and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among divers Latinos
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Hevner, Robert, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Developmental neuroscience to clinical neuropathology- neocortex to entorhinal cortex
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| Kremen, William, PhD | Psychiatry
| Cognitive, psychosocial, psychiatric symptom, alcohol use, health/medical, sleep quality, neuroendocrine, genotyping, biomarker ,and multi-modal neuroimaging assessments
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LaCroix, Andrea, 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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Marquine, Maria, PhD
| Psychiatry
| Neurocognitive decline among older Hispanics
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McEvoy, Linda, 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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Salmon, David, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Cognitive deficits associated with Dementia with Lewy Bodies
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*Track Leader;
§Executive Committee
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Ackerman, Susan, PhD
| Cellular and Molecular Medicine
| Molecular pathways controlling neuron homeostasis
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Campana, Wendy Marie, PhD
| Anesthesia
| Molecular and Cellular Response to Nerve Injury and Chronic Neuropathic Pain
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Daneman, Richard, PhD
| Pharmacology, Neuroscience
| Cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms of blood-brain barrier development / dysfunction in neurological diseases
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Desplats, Paula, PhD§
| Neurosciences & Pathology
| Neuroepigenetic mechanisms in disease
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Gleeson, Joseph, MD
| Neurosciences & Pediatrics
| Genetic and cell biological basis of brain development
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Hook, Vivian, PhD
| Neurosciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Activity
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Muotri, Alysson, PhD
| Pharmacology, Neurosciences
| Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms in Autism and other Developmental Disorders
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Rissman, Robert, PhD*,§
| Neurosciences
| Molecular Neuropathology and Biomarker Discovery
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Wu, Chengbiao, PhD
| Neurosciences
| Mechanisms of Axonopathy and Neurodegeneration
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee
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Banghart, Matthew, PhD
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neuromodulation; nociception in CNS
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Bloodgood, Brenda, PhD
| Neurobiology,
Biol Sci
| Synapse biology & gene regulation; circuit plasticity
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Cline, Hollis, PhD
| Neurosciences, TSRI
| Architecture, development, and plasticity of brain circuits
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Genter, Timothy, PhD
| Psychology, Social Sci
| Computational approaches in audiotry processing
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Halpain, Shelley, PhD*,§
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neural circuit development & degeneration
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Kleinfeld, David, PhD
| Physics, Physical Sci
| Sensorimotor neuroscience; brain microcirculation; neurotechnology
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Komiyama, Takaki, PhD
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Cellular resolution functional imaging of neuronal ensembles
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Leutgeb, Jill, PhD§
| Neurobiology, Biol Sci
| Neural basis of memory formation and retrieval at the systems level
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Rangamani, Padmini, PhD
| School of Engineering
| Computational biology & biophysics related to synapse functiion
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Tye, Kay, PhD
| Salk Institute
| Brain circuits of emotion, motivation, social behaviors
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*Track Leader; §Executive Committee
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