NC State Neuroscience Research

NEUROSCIENCE

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Peter Early Clinical Professor, Neurology

DVM: University of Florida Research Interest: Brain tumor characterization and therapy, epilepsy, inflammatory brain disease.

Diplomate: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Neurology Clinical Specialty: Neurology and Neurosurgery Contact: Email: pjearly@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-6226

Troy Ghashghaei Professor, Neurobiology

PhD: Boston University Research Interest: Developing and aging of adult stem cells and their ependymal niche in the forebrain, role of cell cycle regulators in symmetric and asymmetric divisions of neural stem cells in the developing and postnatal brain.

Contact: Email: tghashg@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-6174

Duncan Lascelles Professor, Small Animal Surgery and Pain Management

DVM: University of Bristol PhD: University of Bristol Diplomate: American College of Veterinary Surgeons; European College of Veterinary Surgeons Research Interest: Developing and validating methods to measure pain in spontaneous disease animal models and probing tissues from well-phenotyped animals with spontaneous disease to understand the neurobiology of that pain, discovering novel therapeutic targets.

Contact: Email: duncan_lascelles@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-6762

Chris Mariani Associate Professor, Neurology

DVM: University of Guelph PhD: University of Florida Diplomate: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Neurology Research Interest: Brain tumor characterization and therapy, epilepsy, inflammatory brain disease.

Contact: Email: chris_mariani@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-0302

Santosh Mishra Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

MSc: Agra University PhD: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Research Interest: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying chronic itch and possibly pain in mice, characterizing the subtype of itch and pain-responsive neurons in the spinal cord, tracing the neural circuit for itch sensation in the spinal cord and central nervous system, discovering how specific mechanisms of itch are conserved across mammalian species.

Contact: Email: skmishra@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-2152

Karen Munana Professor, Neurology

DVM: University of California, Davis Diplomate: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Neurology Research Interest: Canine epilepsy, with focus on clinical trials that evaluate the effectiveness of novel therapies and explore the causes of pharmacoresistance.

Clinical Specialty: Small animal neurology and Neurosurgery.

Contact: Email: karen_munana@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-6231

Natasha Olby Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery

VetMD: University of Cambridge PhD: University of Cambridge Diplomate: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Neurology Clinical Specialty: Neurology and Neurosurgery Research Interest: Treatment of spinal cord injury, understanding the genetic basis of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases and brain neoplasia, therapy of canine brain tumors, veterinary genetics laboratory.

Contact: Email: natasha_olby@ncsu.edu Office: 919-513-8286

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