Leadership

Grae Davis

Graeme Davis, PhD is the Morris Herzstein Distinguished Professor of Medicine within the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Davis is the former Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF. He has been an active member of the UCSF Neuroscience and Tetrad graduate programs throughout his career and is the former director of an internationally recognized practical course in neuroscience hosted at the Marine Biological Laboratory. 

 

Davis and his laboratory have pioneered a rapidly growing sub-field of neuroscience termed ‘homeostatic plasticity’. This area of research seeks to define how the nervous system remains resilient to perturbation throughout life, with implications for the onset and progression of diverse psychiatric and neurological disorders ranging from autism and schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s and ALS, as well as the inevitable adverse effects caused by advancing age. 

Executive Comittee

Alexandra Nelson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Catherine R. Lucey, MD, MACP, is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UCSF
Corey Harwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Evan Feinberg, PhD Assistant Professor Anatomy
Christoph Kirst, Ph.D., MS, Assistant Professor
Mercedes Paredes MD, PhD Associate Professor in Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Peter Denes, PhD, Senior Staff Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shankar Sundaram, Director for the Center for Bioengineering at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, Ph.D. Scott Alan Myers Endowed Professor
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