Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Chair Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair in Neuroscience
Vice Chair for Research Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 903Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3794Fax: 718.430.8821k.khodakhah@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Cerebellar physiology and function; Motor coordination and movement disorders; Cerebellar contribution to non-motor functions, Autism, schizophrenia, addiction and migraine; Neuronal Excitability and Synaptic transmission
Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueUllmann Building, Room: 209Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3360Fax: 718.430.8819myles.akabas@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Malaria parasite membrane transport physiology; mechanisms of purine and drug transport; development of novel antimalarial drugs that target the primary malaria purine import transporter
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Dorothy and Marty Silverman Chair in Psychiatry
Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueBelfer Building, Room: 402Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3080jalpert@montefiore.org
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Instructor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 601Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2195zeynep.altun@einsteinmed.org
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 322Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2468Fax: 718.430.8588joseph.arezzo@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Studies of peripheral neuropathy in mice, rats, and monkeys. Spinal Cord and cortical cord physiology. EEG studies of seizure and pre-seizure patterns Assessment of toxic neuropathies Human multicenter clinical trials
Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Harold & Muriel Block Chair in Molecular Pharmacology
Director, Einstein Center of Toxicology
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 209Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2317Fax: 718.430.8922michael.aschner@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Mechanisms of manganese-induced neurotoxicity, genetic factors associated with manganese toxicity, the role of dopamine signaling in susceptibility of dopaminergic neurodegeneration, metals in restless legs syndrome.
Assistant Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 301Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2370Fax: 718.430.8821anita.autry@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Our research projects are focused on understanding the neural circuits that regulate social behaviors, particularly parenting.
Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology)
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 724ABronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3853Fax: 718.430.8821praveen.ballabh@einsteinmed.org
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 518Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2575ted.bargiello@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Structure-function relations and voltage-driven conformational changes of connexin ion channels by combined electrophysiological, biochemical, structural and computational approaches.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 203Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.8507Fax: 718.430.8821renata.brito@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Cortical development. Inhibitory circuits. Visual processing. Neurodevelopmental disorders.
Distinguished Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Sylvia and Robert S. Olnick Chair in Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 724Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2536michael.bennett@einsteinmed.org
Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology
Professor, Department of Pathology
Chair Department of Systems & Computational Biology
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Systems & Computational Biology
Albert Einstein College of MedicineMichael F. Price Center1301 Morris Park AvenueRoom: 153CBronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.678.1063Fax: 718.678.1018aviv@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: My research agenda addresses quantitative problems in evolutionary systems and developmental biology by using a combination of computational, mathematical and experimental tools, as it pertains to complex traits.
Professor Emerita, Department of Pathology
Professor Emerita, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 520Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2140celia.brosnan@einsteinmed.org
Clinical Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 125FBronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3728Fax: 718.430.3266lucy.brown@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Basal ganglia neuroanatomy and function; Reward systems; Neuroscience of romantic love and attachment
Professor, Department of Genetics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueUllmann Building, Room: 709Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3621Fax: 718.430.8778hannes.buelow@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Neural patterning with a focus on extracellular matrices using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; Glycosaminoglycans in development as well as health and disease.
Lena and Joseph Gluck Distinguished Scholar in Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine1225 Morris Park AvenueVan Etten, Room: 3C5Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3846herman.buschke@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Alzheimer's disease Dementia Memory Cognition
Visiting Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Brigadeiro TrompovskIBCCF, Sala #G2-043Ilha do FundaoRio de Janeiro, 21949900
acarlos@bio.ufrj.br
Areas of Research: stem cells and cell therapies
Visiting Associate Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 905Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2413Fax: 718.430.8821rcarroll@njcu.edu
Areas of Research: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity; inhibitory and excitatory plasticity; Gutamate and GABA receptor trafficking.
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 701Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3263pablo.castillo@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission and plasticity under physiological and brain disease conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia and drug abuse
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Universidad de ValparaisoAvenida Gran Bretana 1111Casilla 5029, Correo 4Valparaiso,
andres.chavez@uv.cl
Areas of Research: Neuromodulation of synaptic transmission under physiological and pathological conditions, such as retinal and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 511Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2986Fax: 718.430.8557streamson.chua@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Hypothalamic regulation of energy balance and feeding; Melanocortin regulation of fertility and reproduction; FGF signaling and glucose control; Leptin and leptin receptor models of obesity and diabetes;
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology
Albert Einstein College of MedicineMichael F. Price Center1301 Morris Park AvenueRoom: 353BBronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.678.1150ruben.coen-cagli@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: We study neural computation to understand how the brain produces perceptual experiences. Topics: neural coding and perception of natural images; perceptual variability and uncertainty; neural variability and sensory information; image segmentation; AI.
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 618Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2162Fax: 718.430.8821kostantin.dobrenis@einsteinmed.org
Northeastern UniversityScience & Engineering Complex360 Huntington AvenueBoston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.373.8744e.ebong@northeastern.edu
Areas of Research: Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases associated with the vasculature, including atherosclerosis, cancer metastasis, and neurodegenerative conditions.
Siegfried Ullmann Chair in Molecular Genetics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueUllmann Building, Room: 703Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3130Fax: 718.430.8778scott.emmons@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: C. elegans connectomics; nervous system development; specification of synaptic connectivity, neural cell adhesion proteins; sexual dimorphism of the nervous system.
Professor, The Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery
Chair The Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery
Jeffrey P. Bergstein Chair in Neurological Surgery The Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery
David B. Keidan Chair of Neurological Surgery The Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery
Montefiore Medical Center3316 Rochambeau AvenueBronx, NY 10467
Tel: 718.920.7099Fax: 718.515.8235emad.eskandar@einsteinmed.org
Professor Emerita, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor Emerita, Department of Pediatrics
Professor Emerita, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 113Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3662Fax: 718.430.8654anne.etgen@einsteinmed.org
Professor Emeritus, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 429Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2511Fax: 718.430.8821donald.faber@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Basic mechanisms, regulation and plasticity of synaptic transmission, microcircuits and behavior, intrinsic membrane properties, neurodegeneration and murine models of nervous system disorders.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology & Biophysics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueUllmann Building, Room: 203Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3169alan.finkelstein@einsteinmed.org
Assistant Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Co-Director, Nervous System and Human Behavior Course
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 915Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.4110yonatan.fishman@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Cortical mechanisms of auditory perception
Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Developmental Medicine)
Director of Research of the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center Department of Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueVan Etten, Room: 1C-3CBronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.862.1822Fax: 718.862.1807john.foxe@einsteinmed.org
Associate Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 706Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2258Fax: 718.430.8821anna.francesconi@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Functions of metabotropic glutamatergic signaling in neuronal plasticity and homeostasis; impact of mGluR-interacting proteins and lipids on synaptic functions in animal models of Fragile X syndrome, intellectual disability and schizophrenia
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 248Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.4225lloyd.fricker@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Neuropeptides and other peptides that function in intercellular and intracellular signaling; peptidases that generate biologically active peptides.
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueRoom: 840Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2570antonio.frigeri@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Brain water homeostasis. Evaluation of the different aquaporin-4 isoforms in the expression, polarization and water channel activity at the BBB level and in brain tumors
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine1225 Morris Park AvenueVan Etten, Room: 4A-44Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.839.7549Fax: 718.839.7575vilma.gabbay@einsteinmed.org
Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology (Pediatric Neurology)
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 306Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3791Fax: 718.430.8899aristea.galanopoulou@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Development of antiepileptogenic and disease modifying therapies for post-traumatic epilepsies; Mechanisms and treatments for epileptic encephalopathies; age and sex specific epileptogenesis; models of lissencephaly
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 236Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.8524Fax: 718.430.8821tiago.goncalves@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Adult neurogenesis; Neuronal development; Learning and Memory; Aging
Research Associate Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 925Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.4042Fax: 718.430.8821maria.gulinello@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Behavioral neuroscience , biological basis of behavior, cognition, social behavior, emotion, pain and analgesia, anxiety, depression, ultrasonic vocalizations
Tel: 718.430.2195Fax: 718.430.2514david.hall@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Connectomics, ciliogenesis, genetic control of axon guidance, axonal transport, and neuronal cell fate in Caenorhabditis elegans, tubulogenesis in nematode epithelia, anatomy of aging in nematode tissues, new methods in EM
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 237Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3494jean.hebert@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Devising methods of cell replacement for the adult neocortex when its cells are lost due to damage or age-related degeneration.
Associate, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 822Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2418Fax: 718.430.8821christopher.henry@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: My research aims to understand how sensory context informs our ongoing visual experience, revealing the cortical circuit computations that allow for stable object and form perception in the face of continually changing environments and task demands.
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 612Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2195laura.herndon@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: C. elegans, Aging, Muscles, Nervous System, Degeneration
Prairie View A&M UniversityR.G.P. College of EngineeringComputational Systems BiologyPrairie View, TX 77446
Tel: 936.261.9926daiacobas@pvamu.edu
Areas of Research: - neurogenomics - cardiogenomics - cancer genomics - mathematical modeling of complex biosystems
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 825Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2675bryen.jordan@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Synaptic plasticity; RNA transport and local translation; synapse-to-nucleus signaling; Proteomic analysis of the dynamics of synaptic junctions; molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders.
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 610Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2160Fax: 718.430.8821teresa.jover-mengual@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Molecular and cellular events in the cascade of ischemic brain damage and neuroprotection in experimental stroke animal models.
Visiting Professor, Department of Pathology
AMGEN360 Binney StreetBuilding AMA1Room: 7K14Cambridge, MA 02141
Tel: 617.445.5580zavenk@amgen.com
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 227Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.4271Fax: 718.430.8221soyoun.kim@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: Goal-directed decision process, Learning and Memory, Corticostriatal circuit
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Isidor Tachna Professor in Ophthalmology
Tel: 718.430.2417Fax: 718.430.8821adam.kohn@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: My lab studies visual processing, with a focus on issues of rapid cortical plasticity, population coding, and inter-areal communication. We use neurophysiological, computational and behavioral methods in our work.
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 429EBronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3405
Albert Einstein College of MedicineRose F. Kennedy Center1410 Pelham Parkway SouthRoom: 810Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.3631Fax: 718.430.8821peri.kurshan@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: synaptic development, synaptogenesis, synapse function, molecular neuroscience, cellular neurobiology, synaptic cell biology, C. elegans, genetics, development
Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology)
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Albert Einstein College of MedicineJack and Pearl Resnick Campus1300 Morris Park AvenueForchheimer Building, Room: 103Bronx, NY 10461
Tel: 718.430.2428Fax: 718.430.8772herb.lachman@einsteinmed.org
Areas of Research: We use induced pluripotent stem cell technology to study the molecular basis of schizophrenia and autism by RNA-seq and ChIP-seq. Patient-specific lines and isogenic knockout lines, generated by CRISP-Cas9 are used.