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Research interest / current research work

My current research examines the impact of menopause on knee osteoarthritis pathogenesis. Long term, I am interested in studying how sex and gender impact joint diseases and injuries.

Field of clinical interest
Orthopaedic Surgery

Undergrad institution
Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama

Research interest / current research work
My PhD work is focused on understanding the role of inhibition in the inferior colliculus (IC) after noise exposure. I am interested in characterizing the fate of transplanted embryonic medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells in the IC as a means to increase inhibition in naïve and noise-exposed mice.

Field of clinical interest
Surgery

Undergrad institution
Worcester State University, Worcester Massachusetts

Research interest / current research work
The intersection of cancer biology, tumor immunology, and multi-omic data to improve our understanding of the brain tumor microenvironment, use these insights to develop novel pre-clinical models for clinical risk-stratification. 

Field of clinical interest
Neurosurgery or Head and Neck Surgery(ENT)

Undergrad institution
University of California, Irvine

Research interest / current research work
I study how the brain and spinal cord control itch and pain!

Field of clinical interest
Anesthesia (sub-interests: obstetric anesthesia, pain, and addiction medicine)

Undergrad institution
UCLA

Research interest / current research work
I work at the intersection of aging & breast cancer and why so many women get large indolent ER+ tumors in elderly age.

Field of clinical interest
Probably medical or surgical oncology.

Undergrad institution
Carnegie Mellon University

Research interest / current research work
I’m interested in using novel technologies to probe the neural circuits underlying psychiatric illnesses. Most recently, using in vivo calcium imaging and optogenetics to dissect the contributions of subpopulations of striatal neurons in generating compulsive behaviors and in a mouse model with relevance to OCD.

Undergrad institution
University of Pittsburgh 

Field of clinical interest
Psychiatry

Research interest / current research work 
I expand the genetic code so we can control how proteins work using light and using designer small molecule triggers. I also apply similar tools to nucleic acids.

Field of clinical interest
Ophthalmology

Undergrad institution
Franklin & Marshall College

Research interest / current research work
Using bioinformatics and multiplexed imaging to develop novel methods for characterizing human disease and harnessing clinically actionable data.

Field of clinical interest
Interventional Radiology Oncology

Undergrad institution
University of Virginia (BS), Harvard University (MBI)

Research interest / current research work 
Very briefly, I am interested in the basis for cognitive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric diseases, particularly in psychosis spectrum disorders like schizophrenia.

Field of clinical interest 
Psychiatry

Undergrad institution
Macalester College

Research interest / current research work
I study descending mechanisms of pain signaling in the brainstem and spinal cord working to characterize pelvic afferents transmitting affective/pleasurable touch signals.

Field of clinical interest
Anesthesiology, pelvic pain, reproductive health

Undergrad institution
University of Pennsylvania (Chemistry)