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, Director of Addiction Treatment Research Unit, the Greg Brown Endowed Chair, 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

Associate Director, Brain Health Institute

Website

Wayne W. Fisher, PhD, BCBA-D

Henry Rutgers Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS, Director of Rutgers Center for Autism Research, Education and Services (RUCARES), Director of CSH-RUCARES and the Severely Affected Behavior Disorders in Children Program at CSH.

Luciano D'Adamio, MD, PhD

Herbert and Jacqueline Klein Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodegeneration Research, Associate Director of BHI for Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegeneration Research. Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology at NJMS.

David H. Zald, PhD (Joining Rutgers- May 2020)

Henry Rutgers Term Chair, Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS, Director of Center for Advance Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR).

Detlev Boison, PhD

Vice Chair of Research and Training, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, New Jersey Medical School.

Cathleen Piazza, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Applied Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Director of Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program, Children's Specialized Hospital.

R. Christopher Pierce, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Assistant Director for Education and Training in BHI.

Brian Greer, PhD, BCBA-D

Assistant Professor, RWJMS- Department of Pediatrics, Assistant Director CSH-RUCARES. Oversees the Severe Behavior Disorders in Children Program.

Hyung Jin Ahn, PhD

Assistant Professor, NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience. Hyung Jin's lab studies molecular mechanisms underlying cerebrovascular deficits in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), investigating cerebrovascular dysfunction and blood-brain barrier damage in rodent AD models and postmortem specimens of AD patients. Lab Website

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.

Alexander Kusnecov, PhD

Professor, SAS- Department of Psychology.

Faculty

Core Members