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COLEEN ATKINS, PH.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Developing Novel Therapies for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury
Research Interests
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• The research in our laboratory focuses on developing novel therapeutic interventions for traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury.
• We are identifying the biochemical changes that underlie the pathology in the CNS after trauma using molecular biology, biochemistry, and electrophysiology techniques.
• We are developing therapeutic strategies targeting maladaptive electrophysiological alterations, inflammation, and intracellular biochemical signaling pathways that are dysregulated during chronic traumatic brain injury.
• The ultimate aim of the laboratory is to translate our preclinical studies to the clinic by testing our novel therapeutic interventions validated in the laboratory in chronic TBI survivors.
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