To find email addresses for the contacts listed below, go to one.iu.edu and search: DIRECTORY, click on the IU Directory icon, then search by name. If you are having difficulty finding contact information or have other questions about research in neurology and neuroscience, please feel free to contact one of the SIGN Research co-chairs.
Liana Apostolova – Alheimer’s Disease; open to students and residents. Requirements: 4-8 week commitment.
Contact by email.
Yu-Chien Wu – MRI neuroimaging, diffusion MRI; open to students and residents. Requirements: 10-20 hrs/week and background knowledge about MRI neuroimaging.
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/7079/wu-yu-chien/
Jason Mackey – Stroke/Intracerebral Hemorrhage; open to students and residents. Requirements: This is the Clinical Stroke Research Elective (93NR750). Students are expected to be a part of the team for an entire month.
Contact course coordinator, Ashley Blatsioris
Linda Williams – Stroke, Health Systems, Quality of Care; open to residents and possibly students. Requirements: More than one month commitment is needed due to time required for regulatory approvals.
Contact by email.
Elizabeth Begyn – Neurocognitive consequences of various medical diagnoses; open to students and residents.
Contact by email.
Xiao-Ming Xu – Spinal cord injury, neuroprotection, neuroregeneration; open to students and residents.
Contact by phone or email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/19746/jin-xiaoming/
Wade Clapp – Rasopathies, particularly NF1 and NF2; open to students and residents. Requirements: 2-12 months would be ideal. Can help someone get extramural funding.
Contact by email.
Bruce Lamb – Alzheimer’s Disease; open to students and residents.
Contact the Executive Assistant, Ms. Natassia Belton by phone or email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/23627/lamb-bruce/
Stephen Boehm – Neurobiology of drug and alcohol addiction in rodent models; open to students and residents. Requirements: At least 20 hrs/week.
Contact by email
Link to lab website: https://science.iupui.edu/people/boehm-stephen
Millie Georgiadis – Mechanism of cis-platin induced peripheral neuropathy; open to students and residents. Requirements: Must have 4-5 hour blocks of time available to participate in experiments.
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/departments/biochemistry-molecular-biology/faculty/10591/georgiadis-millie/
Christopher Lapish – Neurocomputational basis of impaired cognition in addiction; open to students and residents.
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://science.iupui.edu/people/lapish-christopher
Yansheng Du – Therapeutic development on neurodegenerative disorders; open to students and residents. Requirements: Need to accomplish a project and have an abstract to present
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/15003/du-yansheng/
Brady Atwood – Addiction biology; open to students and residents. Requirements: Preferably 15-20 hrs/week. Not afraid of rodents.
Contact by email. Link to website: https://medicine.iu.edu/departments/psychiatry/faculty/18765/atwood-brady/
Cristian Lasagna-Reeves – Alzheimer’s Disease and tauopathies; open to students and residents.
Contact by email. Link to website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/27419/lasagna-reeves-cristian/
Fletcher White – Pain neurobiology and traumatic brain injury; open to students and residents. Requirements: Both pre-clinical and clinical research directions will be discussed with an eye on the amount of time necessary to complete projects.
Contact by phone or email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/20353/white-fletcher/
Jorge Jose – Neurological disorders, especially Autism Spectrum Disorders; open to students and residents.
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/25528/jose-jorge/
Deb Hickman – Behavior and physiology; animal welfare; affective state. Student/resident participation depends on project. Requirements: project dependent.
Contact by email.
Michelle L. Block – Environmental neurotoxicology and neuroimmunology in CNS disease; open to students and residents.
Contact by email.
Link to lab website: https://microgliaresearch.org
Robert Pascuzzi – ALS Clinical Trials. Please note: involvement in clinical trials is more difficult for students because of the duration and patient contact.
If you would still like to look into the possibility, contact Sandy Guingrich and/or Angi Micheels.
Please keep in mind this is not an exhaustive list. This is a starting point consisting of labs that have agreed to medical student involvement in the past.