Our People

Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Department Head and Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT

Director of the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

James W. (1963) and Patricia T. Poitras Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Eva Lendaro investigates how sympathetic nervous system activity and axonal sprouting after craniofacial nerve injury drive chronic neuropathic pain, with the goal of developing targeted molecular and neuromodulatory strategies to prevent and treat orofacial pain.

Samira Mohammed is expanding the toolkit of nanoparticle-based MRI sensors by developing probes that convert optical signals into contrast changes detectable by MRI, enabling noninvasive mapping of molecular brain activity at unprecedented depth and resolution.

Keisuke Nagao develops novel strategies for the systemic delivery of gene-editing tools to animal models via a chemical approach.

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Guang Xu uses advanced 2D human iPSC-based models and 3D human brain organoids to investigate microglia–oligodendrocyte communication in Alzheimer’s disease, aiming to uncover mechanisms that promote myelin formation and repair to inform therapeutic development.

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering