Neuroimmune Pharmacology

Tsuneya Ikezu, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Associate Director, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders Description: Dr. Ikezu was born in Tokyo, Japan, obtained MD-PhD (Clinical Pharmacology in Major) from University of Tokyo School of Medicine, and had post-doctoral training at UCSF (Immunology), Harvard Medical School (Clinical Pharmacology), and Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Neuroscience). He is currently Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, and Associate Director of Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska Medical Center Howard E. Gendelman, M.D. Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Director, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders Dr. Howard Gendelman is the Larson Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University followed by fellowship training and faculty appointments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, the National Institutes of Health, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He has gained international attention for his work on common mechanisms of nerve damage in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and HIV-1-associated dementia. His research has lead to groundbreaking discoveries on how inflammation causes nerve cell damage and how drugs and vaccines can be used to reverse it.

Immunology of the Nervous System.- Introducing Neuroimmune Pharmacology.- Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Health and Disease.- Anatomical Networks: Structure and Function of the Nervous System.- The Blood Brain Barrier.- Anterior Chamber and Retina.- Hippocampus and Spatial Memory.- Glial and Neuronal Cellular Compostion, Biology, and Physiology.- Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes, and Schwann Cells.- Macrophages, Microglia, and Dendritic C.- Neuronal and Glial Signaling.- The Vertebrate Retina.- Lymphocytes and the Nervous System.- Stem Cells.- Neurobiology and Neural Systems.- Cytokines and Chemokines.- CNS Cell Signaling.- Nervous System Diseases and Immunity: Clinical Descriptions.- Neurodegeneration.- Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases.- Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, and Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration.- Guillain-Barre Syndrome.- Autoimmune Disease.- NeuroAIDS.- HTLV-I/II.- Viral Encephalitis.- Alzheimer's Disease.- Parkinson's Disease.- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.- Huntington's Disease.- Prion Diseases.- Glaucoma.- Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease.- Neurogenesis and Brain Repair.- Familial Neurodegenerative Diseases and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms.- The Neuroimmune System in Psychiatric Disorders.- Major Depression, Bipolar Syndromes, and Schizophrenia.- Molecular Pathogenesis for Schizophrenia and Major Depression.- Drugs of Abuse and the Immune System.- Therapeutics.- Neuropharmacology.- Neurodegenerative Diseases.- Multiple Sclerosis.- HIV-Associated Dementia.- Immunotherapy.- Alzheimer's Disease.- Parkinson's Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.- Protective and Regenerative Autoimmunity in CNS Injury.- Adjuvants.- Polymer Nanomaterials.- Gene Therapy and Vaccination.- Proteomics and Genomics.- Neuroimaging.