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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

Associate Director, Brain Health Institute

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Leslie, D Phil

Distinguished Professor, SAS- Department of Psychology.

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.

Brian P. Keane, PhD

Assistant Professor, RBHS-UBHC- Department of Psychiatry.

Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD

Professor, Chair, RBHS-RWJMS- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology.

Daniel Schneider, MD

Assistant Professor, RBHS-RWJMS- Department of Neurology.

David Margolis, PhD

Assistant Professor, SAS- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience.

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.

John Pintar, PhD

Professor, RBHS-RWJMS- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology.

Joshua Berlin, PhD

Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.

Judy Thompson, PhD

Assistant Professor, RBHS-SHP - Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions.

Kasia M. Bieszczad, PhD

Assistant Professor, RU-NB-SAS- Department of Psycology.

Kelvin Kwan, PhD

Assistant Professor, SAS- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.

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

Professor, SAS- Department of Chemistry and Chemical biology.

Mark Gluck, PhD

Professor, RU-Newark, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Mark West, PhD

Professor, SAS- Department of Psychology

Yu-Lan Mary Ying, PhD

Assistant Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Otolaryngology

Michael Lewis, PhD

Distinguished Professor, RBHS-RWJMS- Department of Pediatrics

Nicholas T. Bello, PhD

Associate Professor, SEBS- Department of Animal Sciences

Radek Dobrowolski. , PhD

Assistant Professor. RU-Newark, Department of Biological Sciences

Rafael Benoliel, BDS

Professor, Associate Dean for Research, RBHS-SDM

Sarah McMahon, PhD
Associate Professor Associate Director, Center on Violence Against Women and Children, School of Social Work.

Steve Buyske, PhD

Associate Professor, SAS- Department of Statistics

Steven W. Levison, PhD

Professor, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience

Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD

Professor, Chair, RBHS-RWJMS & NJMS- Department of Neurology

Teresa Wood, PhD

Professor, Rena Warshow Endowed Chair in Multiple Sclerosis, RBHS-NJMS- Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience.

Tracey Shors, PhD

Distinguished Professor, SAS- Department of Psychology

Tracy Tran, PhD

Associate Professor, RU-Newark, Department of Biological Sciences.

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.