Translational Neurophysiology Lab

Overview

The Translational Neurophysiology (TNP) lab at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research focuses on the preclinical development and preclinical and clinical testing of neurostimulation therapies, and on studying the basic mechanisms behind these therapies. Our group utilizes a variety of techniques from neurophysiology, cardiovascular physiology, chronic implants, experimental surgical and interventional techniques and bioelectronic systems for closed-loop neural recording and stimulation, both in health and in disease models, in rodents and swine.

A separate group of researchers, at the University of Washington School of Medicine, studies the effects of cervical and auricular vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in the brain of nonhuman primates, and leverages the knowledge gained to control cortical plasticity and augment cognitive performance.

Visit the lab website for more information: TNPlab.org

Lab members

PI: Stavros Zanos, MD PhD

Feinstein Group

• Khaled Qanud, MD (Senior staff scientist)

• Jacquelyn Nicole Tomaio, MS (Research associate)

• Umair Ahmed, MD (Research assistant)

• Yao-Chuan Chang, PhD (Post-doctoral fellow)

• Ibrahim Mughrabi, MD PhD (Post-doctoral fellow)

• Laura Goldman (Research associate)

University of Washington Group

• Irene Rembado, PhD (Post-doctoral fellow)

• Andrew Gallen Morse (Research assistant)

• Hayley Boyd (Research assistant)

• Camille Birch (Research assistant)