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Anesthesiology and Critical Care     (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Howard B. Gutstein, M.D.
----Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care; and Department of Molecular Genetics
--------Proteomic Approaches to Pain, Opioid Tolerance and Drug Addiction

Zhizhong Z. Pan, Ph.D.
----Department of Symptom Research
--------Mechanisms of Opioid Analgesia and Opioid Addiction

Integrative Biology and Pharmacology     (UT Medical School at Houston)

Richard Clark, Ph.D
----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
--------Desensitization of ß2-Adrenergic Receptors

Vasanthi Jayaraman, Ph.D.
    Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
        Neurotransmitter Receptors: their Structure, Function and Control

Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
    Chairman, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
        Cell Signaling with Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP

Agnes Schonbrunn, Ph.D.
----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
--------Membrane Receptor Signaling and Regulation

Edgar T. Walters, Ph.D.
----Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
--------Neuronal Injury; Memory and Learning

Neurobiology and Anatomy     (UT Medical School at Houston)

Douglas A. Baxter, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Cellular and Network Processes Underlying Behavior and Behavioral Plasticity

Andrew Bean, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Mechanisms of Vesicle Trafficking and Neurotransmitter Release

Michael Beierlein , Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity in Neocortical Networks

John H. Byrne, Ph.D.
----Chairman, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Neural and Molecular Bases of Simple Forms of Memory

Leonard J. Cleary, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Morphological Correlates of Learning and Memory

Terry J. Crow, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Cellular and Molecular Analysis of Associative Learning

Nachum Dafny, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Neurophysiology and Neurobehavior of Psychostimulants, Drugs of Abuse and Pain

Pramod K. Dash, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage

Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.
----
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
-------- Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Behavior

Daniel J. Felleman, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Organization, Function and Plasticity of Primate Cerebral Cortex

Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Presynaptic Physiology and the Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release

Roger Janz, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Analysis of the Function of Synaptic Vesicle Proteins by Genetic Methods

James J. Knierim, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Neural Network Mechanisms of Learning in the Hippocampus

Yin Liu , Ph.D.
----
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Computational Biology and BioInformatics

David W. Marshak, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Structure and Function of Primate Retina

Anne B. Sereno, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Attention and Memory: Primate Neurophysiology and Human Behavior

Harel Shouval, Ph.D.
-----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
----------Theoretical Neuroscience; Synaptic Plasticity; Development; Learning and Memory

Jack C. Waymire, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Plasticity of Neurotransmitter Biosynthesis

M. Neal Waxham, Ph.D. (Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program)
---
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Molecules Responsible for the Formation and Storage of Memories

Anthony A. Wright, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
--------Learning and Memory with Human and Non-Human Animals

Neurology      (UT Medical School at Houston)

Jaroslaw A. Aronowski, Ph.D.
----Department of Neurology
--------Neurobiology of Stroke

Neurosurgery     (UT Medical School at Houston)

Raymond J. Grill, Ph.D.

   Department of Neurosurgery

       Acute and Chronic Models of Spinal Cord Injury

Ophthalomology and Visual Science     (UT Medical School at Houston)

Louvenia Carter-Dawson, Ph.D.
----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
--------Cell Biology of Retinal Cells

Stephen Massey, Ph.D.
----Research Director, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
--------Neuronal Circuits in the Retina

Stephen L. Mills, Ph.D.
----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
--------Signaling in Parallel Visual Pathways

John O'Brien, Ph.D.
----Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
--------Regulation and Plasticity of Electrical Synapses

Steven W. Wang, Ph.D.
----
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

          Molecular Regulation of Neural Cell Type Differentiation

 

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine      (UT Medical School at Houston)

Sozos C. Papasozomenos, M.D.
----Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
----    Tau Protein; Alzheimer’s Disease; Heat Shock; Phosphorylation; Neuroendocrinology

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences      (UT Mental Sciences Institute)

Katherine A. Loveland, Ph.D.
----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
--------Developmental Neuropsychology; Autism; and Developmental Disorders

Richard A. Meisch, M.D., Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
       
Neuropharmacology of Drug Reinforcement

Frederick G. Moeller, M.D.
----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
--------Role of Serotonin in Human Behavior

Deborah A. Pearson, Ph.D.
----Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
----    Cognitive and Behavioral Studies of Developmental Psychopathology; Neuroimaging,
--------and Medication Treatment Studies with Children and Adolescents

Radiology      (UT Medical School at Houston)

Ponnada A. Narayana, Ph.D.
----Department of Radiology
--------Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
--------of Central Nervous System Disorders with an Emphasis on Spinal Cord Injury
--------and Multiple Sclerosis; Image Analysis and Morphometry

Symptom Research      (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Patrick M. Dougherty, Ph.D.
---Department of Symptom Research
--------Spinal Dorsal Horn Physiology and Pharmacology


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