Research Faculty

Jonathan Miller, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
& Department Chair

Research Interests:

• Movement disorders and epilepsy

Lawrence S. Chin, MD
Robert and Molly King Endowed Professorship of Neurosurgery
Dean, College of Medicine

Research Interests:

• Cancer research

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Chin, LS)

Satish Krishnamurthy, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Pathogenesis of hydrocephalus, minimally invasive surgery

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Krishnamurthy, S)

Blair Calancie, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• CNS plasticity after trauma; intraoperative electrophysiology

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Calancie, B)

Li-Ru Zhao, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Brain plasticity; molecular, cellular and functional mechanisms of brain repair in traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and CADASIL. Pathological mechanisms underlying the development and progression of brain injury, neurodegenerative and genetic diseases.

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Zhao, L)

Daniel Ts'o, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Neuronal mechanisms of visual perception, studied through physiological, anatomical and functional imaging techniques. Adult cortical plasticity.

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Ts'o, DY)

Mariano S. Viapiano, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Brain cancer therapies; tumor microenvironment; tumor invasion; extracellular matrix; nano-therapeutics; immunotherapies

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Viapiano, MS)

Harish Babu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Human Neurophysiology

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Babu, H)

Satyajit V. Marawar, MD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Volunteer Faculty

Research Interests:

• Expandable cages for spinal fusion, cervical myelopathy in Veterans

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Marawar, SV)

Seth Perry, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Research Interests:

• Neurosurgery 

Publications:

• PubMed Central (Perry,S)