RESEARCH FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
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David Yurek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
- Graduated from the University of Southern California in Psychology and Biology and received doctorate in physiology and biophysics
- Completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Rochester
- Research interest focuses on stem cell, viral and non-viral gene therapy, and neurotrophic therapies
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Bin-Tao Pan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
- Received his PhD in biochemistry from McGill University in Montreal, Canada
- 1983-1990, fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
- Research interests focus on understanding the mechanism by which constitutive activation of the Ras signaling system transforms cells
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Michal Toborek, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular Neuroscience and Vascular Biology Laboratory
- 1985, received his medical degree at the Silesian School of Medicine, Poland
- 1989, received his PhD with his dissertation entitled “Pathomechanisms of experimental atherosclerosis induced by methionine-enriched or lipid-enriched diets, Silesian School of Medicine, Poland
- Research interests on the mechanisms of the disruption of the blood-brain barrier in chronic and acute CNS disease
- Interests also in spinal cord trauma and brain metastasis
Overview of Dr. Toborek's Molecular Neuroscience and Vascular Biology Laboratory. Dr. Toborek's Published Manuscripts on Pub Med.
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Sung Young Eum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- 1998 received his PhD at the Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
- 2005 Research Associate, University of Kentucky
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