Rafael Franco, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Email: rfranco123@gmail.com
Abdelhamid Benazzouz, PhD
Section: Brain stimulation
Research Director, Team Leader, Neurochemistry, Deep brain stimulation & Parkinson’s disease, Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute, Bordeaux University, Bordeaux, France
Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang, PhD
Section: Neuroimmunology
Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD
Section: Neurological alterations caused by cholesterol dyshomeostasis
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Volker Dietz, MD, FRCP, FEAN
Section: Spinal cord injury
Professor (emeritus) and Senior Research Fellow at Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Shile Huang, PhD
Section: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration/neuroprotection
Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport, LA, USA
Peter Illes, MD
Section: Neuron-glia protective interactions
Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Weidong Le, MD, PhD
Section: Biomarkers
Professor and Vice Dean, Medical School and Director of Neurology Institute, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences-Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, China;
Professor and Director of Center for Translational Research on Neurology Disease, the 1st Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
Jorge Manzanares, PhD
Section: Mental health and addictive disorders
Professor of Pharmacology, Universidad Miguel Hernández.CSIC, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, USA
Zixu Mao, MD, PhD
Section: Neural stress response and signaling
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology and Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Thomas Müller, MD
Section: Chronic neurodegeneration with a focus on dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Professor at Department of Neurology, St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
Hyun-Ock Pae, PhD
Section: Microglia-mediated neuroprotection
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Republic of Korea
Nicolas Sergeant, PhD
Section: Amyloidopathies and tauopathies
Research Director, Alzheimer & Tauopathies Team, Lille Neuroscience and Cognition, Université de Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
Vijay K. Sharma, MD
Section: Regulatory challenges
Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore;
Senior Consultant, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
Christopher A. Shaw, PhD
Section: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Henning Ulrich, PhD
Section: Synucleopathies and Parkinson’s disease
Full Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the Dep. of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Diana Amantea, PhD
Interests: ischemic stroke; neuroinflammation; neuroprotection
Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy;
Leader of the Stroke Research Unit at the Center of Preclinical and Translational Pharmacology, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari, PhD
Interests: neurorehabilitation; physiotherapy; spasticity; stroke
Professor of Physiotherapy at School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran
Jesus Avila, PhD
Interests: Alzheimer's disease; tau protein; neurodegeneration; neuronal reprogramation; aging
Professor, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Vladimir Josef Balcar, PhD
Interests: glutamate; GABA; neurotransmitter transporters; genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
Yujie Chen, MD, PhD
Interests: subarachnoid hemorrhage; intracerebral hemorrhage; blood-brain barrier; pericyte; neuroinflammation
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
Cristoforo Comi, MD, PhD
Interests: neurodegenerative diseases; neuroimmunology; Parkinson's disease; multiple sclerosis; Alzheimer's disease
Associate Professor of Neurology, Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Center, and the Movement Disorders Center, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Howard E. Gendelman, MD
Interests: neuroprotective immunity; regulatory T cells; adaptive immunity; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Antonio Ibarra, PhD
Interests: spinal cord injury; cerebral ischemia; cognitive impairment; neuroprotection; neuroregeneration; immunonutrition
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Immunology at Anahuac University, Senior Researcher; and Coordinator of the Health Sciences Research Center (CICSA), Anahuac University, Mexico
Dadasaheb M. Kokare, PhD
Interests: neuroscience; behavioral pharmacology; reward and reinforcement (addiction); learning and memory (fear extinction); depression (treatment resistant depression)
Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India
Giuseppe Lanza, MD, PhD
Interests: clinical neurophysiology; neuroplasticity; neuropsychiatry; sleep disorders; neurodegeneration
Associate Professor, Dean of Applied Medical Sciences Techniques, Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
