Brain Damage, Plasticity and Recovery

2:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Prince Georges Room

Dr. Allen Braun, NIH, Title: "Use Of Neuroimaging Methods To Evaluate Long-Term Neuroplastic Changes In Stroke Recovery"

Dr. Larry Latour, NIH, Title: "Role of MRI in Acute Diagnosis and Therapy"

Dr. Michael S. Lebowitz, Director of Research, Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Title: " Discovery and Preclinical Development of a Neuroprotective Agent for Stroke Therapy"

Dr. Hey-Kyoung Lee, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, Title: "Neural Basis for Successful Aging"

Organized by Dr. Hey-Kyoung Lee, Department of Biology, and Dr. David Poeppel, Departments of Linguistics and Biology, University of Maryland.  
Organized and moderated by Dr. Cynthia F. Moss, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland.

ALLEN BRAUN, PH.D. Acting Chief of the Language Section, Voice, Speech, and Language Branch, National Institutes of Health.   Dr. Braun received a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.D. from Rush Medical College.   He completed a residency in neurology at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago; postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health focused on neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and functional neuroimaging at the NIH Clinical Center Department of Nuclear Medicine, where he completed an additional residency with an emphasis on PET imaging; he is board certified in Neurology and Nuclear Medicine.   Dr. Braun's principal research interests involve the use of neuroimaging methods to study brain-language relationships, focusing on speech motor control, and normal and disordered language processing, in particular, on facilitation of language recovery in post-stroke aphasia.

LAWRENCE L. LATOUR, PH.D. Staff Scientist, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,   and a member of the NIH - Suburban Hospital Stroke Team and the NIH Stroke Program at the Washington Hospital Center Stroke Center.  He received his Ph.D. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Biomedical Engineering and post graduate training at Brookhaven National Laboratory.  Previously he served as a member of the technical staff for Sclumberger-Doll Research, developing non-invasive tools for oil exploration and as director of applied sciences at Medical Advances, Inc., commercializing devices for medical imaging.

MICHAEL S. LEBOWITZ, PH.D. Director of Research, Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc.   Dr. Lebowitz joined Panacea in 2000 as a Staff Scientist and served as Director, Parkinson's Disease Program and Project Leader, HAAH Oncology Therapeutics until he was promoted to his current role in 2004.   He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Biochemistry, Cellular, and Molecular Biology. He subsequently completed a three-year fellowship in immunology in the Department of Pathology, Division of Immunopathology also at the Hopkins School of Medicine.   Dr. Lebowitz is also currently an adjunct Lecturer in the Advanced Academic Program in Biotechnology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

HEY-KYOUNG LEE, PH.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Maryland. Dr. Lee completed her undergraduate work in Biology at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), and received her Ph. D. degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, where she performed her thesis research in Dr. Mark Bear's laboratory. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Richard Huganir's laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Lee briefly worked as an Associate Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University before moving to her current position at the University of Maryland. She is currently an Alfred Sloan Fellow, and conducts research on molecular and cellular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity.

For more information about the Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day, please contact Gene Ferrick at (301) 405-7016, or gene@umd.edu.