UAB Department of Neurobiology Faculty 

Associate Professors:
Michael Brenner
Robin A.J. Lester
Lucas Pozzo-Miller
Anne B. Theibert

Assistant Professors:
Lynn E. Dobrunz
Gavin Rumbaugh 
Jacques Wadiche
Linda Overstreet Wadiche
Scott Wilson
Yi Zhou

Secondary Faculty
Links to e-mail and/or departmental web pages are provided.

Franklin R. Amthor, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology 

Agnieszka Ardelt, M.D., Ph.D., 
Assistant Professor, Neurology

Monica Beneyto 
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-Behavioral Neurobiology

Dale J. Benos, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Physiology and Biophysics

Etty (Tika) Benveniste, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Cell Biology 

Gautam Bijur, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor, 

Edwin Blalock, Ph.D. 
Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

William J. Britt, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics

Steven L. Carroll, M.D.Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pathology

Rita Cowell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-Behavioral Neurobiology

Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D., 
Professor of Pathology

Peter J. Detloff, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Leon S. Dure, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics/Neurology 

Paul Gamlin, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Physiological Optics

Timothy J. Gawne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Optometry

Candece L. Gladson, M.D.
Professor, Pathology

Gail V. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry-Behavioral Neurobiology

Kent Keyser, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiological Optics

Kevin L. Kirk, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology & Biophysics

Timothy W. Kraft, Ph.D 
Associate Professor, Physiological Optics

Michael S. Loop, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physiological Optics

Richard B. Marchase, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell Biology
Vice President of Research

Guillermo Marques, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cell Biology

Ling Li, Ph.D., 
Assistant Professor, Medicine

Xiaohua Li, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, Psychiatry-Behavioral Neurobiology

Robert E. McCullumsmith, Ph.D., 
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry-Behavioral Neurobiology

Lori L. McMahon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

James H. Meador-Woodruff, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Psychiatry

Anthony Nicholas, M.D. Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Neurology 

Alan K. Percy, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Neurology 

Kevin A Roth, M.D.
Professor, Clinical Pathology

Douglas M. Ruden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

David Standaert, M.D., Ph.D.,
Professor, Neurology

Thomas Van Groen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cell Biology

Qin Wang, M.D/Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

J. Michael Wyss, Ph.D.
Professor, Cell Biology

Jianhua Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology

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