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Christian Pike
american scientistsChristian Pike is an Associate Professor in Gerontology and a member of the USC Neuroscience Program. His ongoing work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. His laboratory studies the role of neuronal apoptosis in neural diseases. Recently, his research found new use for synthetic estrogens in lessening the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Alzheimer's patients Article on Synthetic Estrogen Use >.
In 2000, he won the Turken Award from the Alzheimer's Association.
Michael E. Greenberg
1954 births | american scientists | living peopleMichael Greenberg (born 1954, New York City) is an American neuroscientist who specializes in neurobiology at the molecular level.http://www.childrenshospital.org/research/greenberg/index.html
He graduated from Wesleyan University and conducted his Ph.D. research and began his post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University in New York City in Gerald Edelman's laboratory. He later completed his postdoctoral research with Edward Ziff at New York University. During his time in Ziff's lab, he observed that the transcription of c-fos, a cellular proto-oncogene, is induced within minutes of activation by neurotrophic factors. In 1986, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts to take a job in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He is currently employed at Children's Hospital Boston, an institution affliated with Harvard, where he is a tenured professor http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/greenberg.html. At Childen's Hospital, he is the director of the Division of Neuroscience. He has received numerous prizes, including the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience and a McKnight award for technological advances in neuroscience. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/michael-e-greenberg. He has mentored a number of successful neuroscientists, including (but not limited to) Morgan Sheng, David Ginty, and Anirvan Ghosh. His lab specializes in the research of activity-dependent transcription in the intracellular signaling of neurons. Areas of interest have included c-fos, CREB, Bdnf, and MeCP2. In general, his research has also explored the molecular biology and genetics of autism spectrum disorders, including the genetic basis of nurturing.
Janelle schlossberger
1990 births | alumni of plainview-old bethpage john f. kennedy high school | american scientists | jewish american scientists | people from new york city birth_place = New York, USA residence = Plainview, New York, USA nationality = American ethnicity= Jewish field = Chemistry and Pharmacology work_institution = SUNY Stony Brook alma_mater = Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School doctoral_advisor = Dr. Iwao Ojima known_for = Tuberculosis Studies prizes = Team Winner of Siemens Competition (2007) }}
Janelle Schlossberger (February 22? 1990 – is an American scientist best known for the research and development of a potentially effective cure for drug resistant tuberculosis. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/nyregion/04siemens.html?ref=us
Bryson Voirin
american scientistsBryson Voirin is an American environmental scientist specializing in canopy ecology in rain forests. Voirin's studies have included research on canopy herbivores in Panama, particularly and two- and three-toed sloths.
References
- Margaret D. Lowman, 2006. It's a Jungle Up There. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Explorers Journal, "The Seclusion of the Sloth: A Journey into the World of Canopy Animals," winter 2006-07
