Core Members
These are faculty recruited and/or directly supported by BHI grants.
We currently have several ongoing recruitments- the Director of Rutgers Addiction Research Center, the Director of Rutgers Center for Autism Research, the Director of Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research, the Greg Brown Endowed Chair, an Associate Professor & an Assistant Professor in Motivational & Affective Neuroscience. All these new neuroscience faculty will join BHI as Core Investigators.
Gary Aston-Jones, PhD
Director, Brain Health Institute
Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health
- Gary Aston-Jones Lab
- Research Programs
Robin L. Davis, PhD
Steven M. Silverstein, PhD
Co-Director, The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (CCNP) at BHI. Website
Luciano D'Adamio, MD, PhD
Herbert and Jacqueline Klein Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodegeneration Research, Director of Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at BHI. Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology at NJMS.
Ioana Carcea, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience. Ioana is interested in how mammals process social information, and the neuronal mechanisms by which this information impacts brain states, neuronal plasticity and behavior. Lab Website.
David J. Barker, PhD
Assistant Professor, RU-NB-SAS- Department of Psychology. David is interested in cutting edge technologies to interrogate neural circuits involved in psychiatric disorders with a goal of better understanding the maladaptive processes that affect the brains of individuals afflicted with drug addiction and comorbid mental disorders. Lab Website.
Anna Konova, PhD
Assistant Professor, UBHC/RWJMS- Department of Psychiatry. My primary research areas of interest are decision neuroscience and computational psychiatry. This work combines fMRI, computational modeling, and patient populations to address questions related to how we construct value and how value is modulated by subjective states and drug addiction. Lab Website.
Bart Krekelberg, PhD
Professor, Rutgers-Newark, Associate Director, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Associate Director, Rutgers Brain Imaging Center.
Bin Tian, PhD
Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Brandon Alderman, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, SAS-Department of Kinesiology and Health.
Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD
Professor, Chair, RBHS-RWJMS- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology.
Hieronim Jakubowski, PhD
Adjunct Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
James Tepper, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers-Newark- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. Website.
Joshua Berlin, PhD
Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.
Judy Thompson, PhD
Kevin D. Beck, PhD
Associate Chief of Staff/R&D - VA New Jersey Health Care System, Associate Professor, RBHS-NJMS-Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.
KiBum Lee, PhD
Mark Gluck, PhD
Mark West, PhD
Yu-Lan Mary Ying, PhD
Michael Lewis, PhD
Radek Dobrowolski. , PhD
Rafael Benoliel, BDS
Sarah McMahon, PhD
Associate Professor Associate Director, Center on Violence Against Women and Children, School of Social Work.
Steve Buyske, PhD
Steven W. Levison, PhD
Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience
Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD
Teresa Wood, PhD
Professor, Rena Warshow Endowed Chair in Multiple Sclerosis, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.
Tracey Shors, PhD
Tracy Tran, PhD
Vanessa Routh, PhD
Professor, RBHS-NJMS, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.
Zhiping Pang, PhD
Assistant Professor, RBHS-RWJMS, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology.