Affiliated Faculty
This list of affiliated investigators can help you identify potential research mentors at the University of Pittsburgh. PSTP students can, and do, work with mentors not on this list, but the investigators featured below have expressed interest in hosting PSTP students in their laboratories.
The overarching goal of my research is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that underlie oligodendrocyte and myelin mediated support to neuronal cell and neural circuitry integrity in models of neurodegeneration.
Models of muscle disease causing muscular dystrophy and muscle atrophy; Translational research for treatment of muscle disease
My laboratory works on the biochemistry and cell biology of neurodegenerative disease. Our main interest is Alzheimer's disease where our focus is the involvement of DNA damage, inflammation, and myelin.
The Olsen laboratory uses fruit flies, human cells, and mice to develop new therapies for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders.
The goals of the Rich Lab are to identify novel therapeutic paradigms in the treatment of advanced cancers, primarily malignant brain tumors, through the prism of stem cell biology to identify core regulatory pathways amenable to pharmacologic targeting.
Understanding the role of ion transporter proteins (sodium-potassium-chloride cotransporter, sodium/proton exchanger, and sodium/calcium exchangers) in ionic dysregulation and neurodegeneration associated with stroke and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy