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Research in the Department of Neurosurgery

Laboratories and Clinical Trials

The Lifespan and Brown University Department of Neurosurgery is actively engaged in translational science and clinical research spanning the breadth of neurological disease. Major areas of interest include cancers of the brain and spine, cerebrospinal fluid disorders, brain and spine trauma, pain, epilepsy, spinal neuroprosthetics, and neuromodulation for movement, cognitive and psychiatric disorders. Our team of neurosurgeon scientists, clinical researchers, and senior research faculty push the boundaries of current knowledge to attain better patient outcomes and create new therapies.

Our faculty collaborate with clinicians and scientists in other hospital departments, including Neurology, Psychiatry, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Neuro-Oncology, Neurocritical Care, Interventional Radiology, and Emergency Medicine. In addition, our faculty participate in a wide variety of ongoing collaborations with the Brown University Carney Institute for Neuroscience and affiliated groups such as Neuroscience, Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Science

Most Recent Research Publications

Rapid motor fluctuations reveal short-timescale neurophysiological biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease

Evaluation of the Structure of Myodural Bridges in an Equine Model of Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

Isolation and characterization of patient-derived CNS metastasis-associated stromal cell lines

An Electroencephalography Bioassay for Preclinical Testing of Analgesic Efficacy

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Research Faculty

Wael F. Asaad, MD, PhD

Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience
Vice-Chair, Research
Director, Functional and Epilepsy Neurosurgery Program
Director, Laboratory for Neurophysiology and Neuromodulation
Associate Director, Neurosurgery Residency Training Program
Director, Fellowship in Functional & Epilepsy Neurosurgery

Jared S. Fridley, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Spinal Outcomes Laboratory

Petra M. Klinge, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery Division
Director, Center for CSF Disorders of the Brain and Spine

Athar Malik, MD, PhD

Samuel I. Kennison, M.D. and Bertha S. Kennison Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Brain Injury & Restorative Neurosurgery
 Director, Restorative Neuroscience Laboratory

Krisztina Moldovan, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Co-Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery Program
Co-Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery and Endovascular Neurosurgery Outcomes Laboratory

Nikos Tapinos, MD, PhD

Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Molecular Neuroscience and Neuro-Oncology Laboratory

Radmehr Torabi, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery Program
Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery and Endovascular Neurosurgery Outcomes Laboratory

Patricia Leigh Zadnik Sullivan, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Center for Spine Tumor & Chordoma Research

Shane Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Computational Neuromodulation Laboratory
Director, Technical Design & Quantitative Applications

Margot Martinez Moreno, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Research Scientist, Neurosurgery Department
Director, Spinal Tumor Epigenetics Laboratory
Co-director, Center for Spine Tumor and Chordoma Research