STRF Neuroscience Group

The South Texas Research Facility is a new, state of the art facility housing modern research laboratories organized in an “open lab” modular format, designed to easily adapt to the needs of highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thematically-focused biomedical research groups. The STRF Neuroscience group is currently comprised of 10 existing independent research labs, with plans and capacity for new recruitment, and occupies approximately 20,000 sq ft of new laboratory space. A major collaborative research theme of the STRF Neuroscience group focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and functional pathology following brain injury, both in the context of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease,  as well as in trauma, stroke, and epilepsy. Approaches ranging from human neurosurgery and genetics, to single ion channel electrophysiology, to mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke, to optical imaging and biophysics, and many more, are applied in a uniquely integrative, collaborative and translational body of complementary research projects.