William T. Newsome, Institute Director
Harman Family Provostial Professor
Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Email: bnewsome@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 725-5814
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President John Hennessy appointed William T. Newsome, effective September 1, 2013. Newsome was recently named the Harman Family Provostial Professor, and has served as director of the Bio-X NeuroVentures program. In Spring of 2013, Newsome was enlisted to co-lead the National Institutes of Health working group for President Obama's BRAIN initiative, which is formulating a national plan for unraveling the mysteries of the brain. The goal of his research is to understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior.
Brian Wandell
Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor
Professor of Psychology and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, and Radiology
Email: Brian.Wandell@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 725-2466
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Wandell is director of the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging. His research centers on vision science, spanning topics from visual disorders, reading development in children, to digital imaging devices and algorithms for both magnetic resonance imaging and digital imaging.
Scott Delp
James H. Clark Professor in the School of Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering, of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Orthopaedic Surgery
Email: delp@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 723-1230
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Delp is founding chair of the Department of Bioengineering and co-director of the Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford. Delp is interested in the form and function of complex living systems ranging from molecular motors to persons with movement disorders. He seeks fundamental understanding of the mechanisms involved in the production of movement, and is motivated to improve treatments for individuals with cerebral palsy, stroke, osteoarthritis, and Parkinson's disease. While research and education are Delp's primary activities, he is also involved in the development of new biomedical technologies and devices.
Miriam Goodman
Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Email: mbgoodman@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 721-5976
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Miriam B. Goodman is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University and conducts fundamental research on the sense of touch. Touch is one of the earliest senses to develop, is vital to daily living, and helps to define our sense of the world. Current work investigates the nature of the molecules and structures that give rise to perceptions conveyed by touch receptor neurons including vibration, pressure, pleasure and pain. She is inspired to develop improved treatments for individuals living with neuropathy caused by diabetes and chemotherapy. In addition to these research activities, Goodman is involved in programs to support and retain women in science.
Robert Malenka
Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor
Professor of Psychiatry and of Behavioral Sciences
Email: malenka@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 724-2730
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Malenka is the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory. Long-lasting activity-dependent changes in the efficacy of synaptic transmission play an important role in the development of neural circuits and may mediate many forms of learning and memory. Work from Malenka's laboratory over the last 10 years has demonstrated that there are a variety of related but mechanistically distinct forms of synaptic plasticity. A major goal of his reasearch is to elucidate both the specific molecular events that are responsible for the triggering of these various forms of synaptic plasticity and the exact modifications in synaptic proteins that are responsible for the observed, long-lasting changes in synaptic efficacy.
Tanya Raschke
Associate Director for Planning and Operations
Email: raschke@stanford.edu
Tel: (650) 725-5926
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Raschke has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from U.C. Berkeley, and was a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow with Michael Levitt in the Department of Structural Biology. She worked as Associate Director for Information Technology for Stanford Bio-X prior to joining SNI.
