Neurobiology of Disease
Affiliated Faculty

Associate Professor
Dritan Agalliu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology and Pharmacology)
Research Interest

Assistant Professor
Christoph Anacker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
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Assistant Professor
Mark Ansorge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
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Professor
Ottavio Arancio, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute)
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Professor
Richard Axel, M.D.
Co-Director, Mind Brain Behavior Initiative
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Professor
Adam M. Brickman
Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology, the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center), Department of Neurology
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Professor
Philip Lawrence De Jager
Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology (in The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain), Department of Neurology
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Associate Professor
Alex Dranovsky, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
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Assistant Professor
Dani Dumitriu
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (in Psychiatry), Department of Pediatrics CAH
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Professor
Jay Gingrich, MD, PhD
Sackler Institute Professor of Developmental Psychology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center
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Professor
Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics / Professor of Neuroscience
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Assistant Professor
Alexander Harris
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, PSY Psych Integrative Neurosci
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Professor
Jonathan A. Javitch, MD, PhD
Lieber Professor of Experimental Therapeutics (in Psychiatry) / Professor of Pharmacology (in the Center for Molecular Recognition and in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)
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Professor
Simon John
Robert L. Burch III Professor of Ophthalmic Sciences (in Ophthalmology), Department of Ophthalmology
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Professor
Christoph Kellendonk, PhD
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in Psychiatry
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Professor
Steven G. Kernie, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (in Neurology)
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Associate Professor
Tae-Wan Kim, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
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Assistant Professor
E. David Leonardo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
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Professor
Tom Maniatis, PhD
Evnin Family Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Investigator, Zuckerman Mind Brain
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Associate Professor
Umrao Monani, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology (in Neurology)
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Assistant Professor
Brandon L. Pearson
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Dept Environmental Health Sci
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Professor
Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD
Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience)
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Associate Professor
Ning Qian, PhD
Associate Professor of Neuroscience / Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
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Professor
Stephen Rayport, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC
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Professor
Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD
Professor of Genetics & Development
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Associate Professor
Neil A. Shneider, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
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Assistant Professor
Tarjinder (TJ) Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computational and Statistical Genomics (in Psychiatry)
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Professor
Scott A. Small, MD
Boris and Rose Katz Professor of Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and in Radiology)
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Professor
David Sulzer, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology (in Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology) at CUMC
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Professor
Carol M. Troy, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) at CUMC
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Associate Professor
Ai Yamamoto, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology / Pathology & Cell Biology
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Associate Professor
Guang Yang, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiological Sciences (in Anesthesiology)