Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, IL·Private·Medical school
4 labs on PI Pages. It spends $12M a year on research and awards 15 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 2,200, all graduate
- Postdocs
- 10
- Faculty
- 164 full-time
- Campus
- Graduate-focused
Labs here
Nicole Ferrara
Neuroscience
Test whether social deprivation reduces excitation of basomedial amygdala (BMA) principal neurons, using in vitro electrophysiology in brain slices from adolescent and adult rats to compare circuit maturation across ages.
Hongkyun Kim
Neuroscience
Test whether a high rate of neurotransmitter release lowers the number of CaV2/UNC-2 calcium channels at C. elegans synapses through negative feedback, using a wide range of mutants that disrupt the release of synaptic vesicles (neurotransmitter-filled sacs).
Robert Marr
Neuroscience
Test how pharmacologically altering the activity of neprilysin and NEP2, enzymes that degrade amyloid-beta, changes acute pathology and recovery in the days after traumatic brain injury in APP-humanized mice.
Neelam Sharma-Walia
Microbiology & Immunology
Determine how KSHV infection turns up the host protein nucleolin and whether nucleolin is needed to keep the virus in its quiet latent state, studying infected endothelial cells and primary effusion lymphoma cells.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.