Faculty Research

CBN faculty members carry out laboratory research that is focused on high-impact biomedical topics utilizing cutting-edge technologies. Research active faculty members operate within three major cluster areas: Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, as well as Organismal Behavior and Physiology. Many of these faculty members offer training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows.

The research interests of the CBN faculty span a wide variety of important and cutting-edge areas of neuroscience in neurological disorders, spinal cord injury, stem cell research, immunology, cancer pathogenesis, gene expression and much more. Research is being conducted in humans, mice, zebrafish, fruit flies, nematodes, yeast, and bacteria.

Members of the faculty receive competitive research grants from Federal institutes including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense, as well as the State of New Jersey and private foundations.

Name	Position	Research Interests	Research Website
Victoria Abraira	Associate Professor	The Neurons and Circuits of the Somatosensory System	Research Website - Victoria Abraira
Joanna Burger	Distinguished Professor	Animal behavior, avian ecology, behavioral toxicology, ecological evaluations and risk	Research Website - Joanna Burger
Qian Cai	Associate Professor	Autophagy-Lysosomal Regulation in Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration	Research Website - Qian Cai
Lori Covey	Dean of Life Sciences, Professor	Immunology	Research Website - Lori Covey
Gabriella D'Arcangelo	PROFESSOR AND CHAIR	Molecular mechanisms of mammalian brain development, injury, and neurological disorders
Wei Dai	Associate Professor	Structural biology of neurodegenerative diseases by cryo-electron tomography	Research Website - Wei Dai
Brian Daniels	Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director	Infection and inflammation in the central nervous system	Research Website - Brian Daniels
Bonnie Firestein	Distinguished Professor	Traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, neuropathic pain, SCI, and dendrite patterning and synaptogenesis	Research Website - Bonnie Firestein
Dunne Fong	Associate Professor	Molecular cell biology of cancer and parasitic protozoa
Martin Grumet	Professor	Mesenchymal stem cells in development & neurological disorders	Research Website - Martin Grumet
Ronald Hart	Professor	Stem cells to study neurogenesis and neural disease	Research Website - Ronald Hart
Shu Chan Hsu	Associate Professor
Rafiq Huda	Assistant Professor	Neural circuits for adaptive decisions and their dysfunction in alcohol use disorders	Research Website - Rafiq Huda
Arnold Hyndman	Professor
Peng Jiang	Associate Professor	Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) platforms — modeling human brain development, aging, and disease Cerebral organoids and chimeric brain models — human microglia and neural lineage interactions Microglia biology and neuroimmune interactions in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders Glia-based gene and cell therapy — microglia replacement and regenerative strategies for neural repair	Research Website - Peng Jiang
Megerditch Kiledjian	Distinguished Professor	RNA Decay in the regulation of Gene Expression and Genetic Disorders	Research Website - Megerditch Kiledjian
Kelvin Kwan	Associate Professor	Molecular basis of spiral ganglion neuron regeneration	Research Website - Kelvin Kwan
Alice Y.-C. Liu	Professor	Stress response, cell aging	Research Website - Alice Y.-C. Liu
David Margolis	Associate Professor	In vivo imaging of neural circuit plasticity	Research Website - David Margolis
Gary F. Merrill	Professor	Mammalian cardiovascular system
Natasha O'Brown	Assistant Professor	Molecular and Cellular Regulators of the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB)	Research Website - Natasha O'Brown
Kathleen Scott	Professor
Max Tischfield	Assistant Professor	Mouse models of human development and disease	Research Website - Max Tischfield
Ping Xie	Associate Professor	Molecular mechanisms of immune regulation and cancer pathogenesis	Research Website - Ping Xie
Wise Young	Distinguished Professor