Laboratories

The Mayo Clinic's Department of Neuroscience emphasizes transformative and translational research in the following focus areas:

• Brain Tumor Stem Cell Research: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
• Comparative Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Casey N. Cook
• Dementia and Immunity: John D. Fryer
• Drug Discovery, Design and Optimization for Novel Therapeutics: Thomas Caulfield
• Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Endophenotypes: Nilufer Ertekin-Taner
• Genomics of ALS and Integrative Analytics: Marka M. Van Blitterswijk
• Meningeal Lymphatics and Neurological Disorders: Sandro Da Mesquita
• Molecular Neurotherapeutics: Tsuneya Ikezu
• Neurobiology of Alzheimer-Related Dementias: Na Zhao
• Neurobiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Wilfried Rossoll
• Neurobiology of Parkinson's Disease: Pamela J. McLean
• Neurodegenerative Diseases: Leonard Petrucelli
• Neuroimmune Interaction in Health and Disease: LongJun Wu
• Neuropathology and Microscopy: Dennis W. Dickson
• Parkinson's Disease: Owen A. Ross
• Pathomechanisms of Neurodegeneration in the Frontotemporal Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Yongjie Zhang
• Protein Biochemistry and Neuroenzymology: Terrone L. Rosenberry
• RNA Metabolism in Neurodegenerative Disease: Mercedes Prudencio
• Stroke and Vascular Disease: Owen A. Ross
• Translational and Integrative Omics for Neurodegeneration: Veronique Belzil
• Translational Cell Biology of Parkinson's Disease: Wolfdieter Springer
• Translational Neurobiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia: Tania Gendron
• Translational Neuropathology: Melissa E. Murray