Udai Bhan Pandey, PhD
Director, Children’s Neuroscience Institute
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Human Genetics and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Molecular mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases

Felicia Bender-Stewart, MA, EdD
Administrator and Program Manager, Children’s Neuroscience Institute, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Psychological and Biological Influences

Ira Bergman, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Child Neurology, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Interim Chief, Division of Child Development, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Program Director, Child Neurology Residency, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Ronald L. and Patricia M. Violi Endowed Chair in Child Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Viral Immunotherapy of Cancer Metastases
• Viral Immunotherapy to Prevent Cancer Metastases

Robert Clark, MD
Vice Chair for Pediatric Critical Care
Endowed Chair for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Brain Care Institute
Associate Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Refining the practice of pediatric neurocritical care
• Integrating IT platforms for delivering high-performing and high-value critical care
• Novel therapeutic and repurposed therapeutics for neuroprotection
• The role of brain-blood interface transporters in brain injury

Ian Pollack, MD
Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Co-director, Brain Tumor Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Leland Albright Professorship in Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Preclinical and Clinical Experimental Therapeutics for Childhood Brain Tumors
• Craniofacial Surgery
• Congenital Spinal Abnormalities
• Immunotherapy for Brain Tumors

Terence Dermody, MD
Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Member; Graduate Program in Microbiology and Immunology (PMI) Member; Integrative Systems Biology (ISB) Graduate Program Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

• Reovirus receptor and pathogenesis
• Reovirus cell entry and replication
• Reovirus-induced apoptosis
• Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) attachment and cell entry

Ivet Bahar, PhD
Distinguished Professor, John K. Vries Chair
Founding Chair, Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine

• Develop novel theoretical and computational models and methods
• Advance knowledge of the molecular basis of protein-protein, drug, lipid interactions and implications
• Neurotransmitter transport events in the CNS
• Analyze the networks of interaction at multiple levels
• Translate knowledge from molecular-to-cellular computations and/or theoretical modeling
• Enable the effective dissemination of tools and training

Charlene T. Chu, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair, Faculty Development & Mentorship in the Department of Pathology
A. Juilio Martines Chair, Neuropathology
Director, Ophthalmic Pathology Service in the Division of Neuropathology
Co-Director, Pathologist Investigator Residency/Research Training Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

• Autophagy and mitophagy in neurons
• Mitochondrial biogenesis; PLOG mutations; Mitochondrial-Nuclear signaling
• Regulation of dendritic arborization and synaptic structures

Valerian Kagan, PhD, DSc
Professor and Vice-Chairman in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Molecular Mechanisms of Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Carbon Nanotubes Biodegradation by Neutrophil Myeloperoxidase
• Cardiolipin In Mechanisms of Acute Lung Injury
• Mitochondrial Targeting Against Radiation Damage
• Oxygenated Species of Cardiolipins As Biomarkers of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
• Mapping Lipid Oxidation in Traumatic Brain Injury by Mass Spectrometric Imaging
• Lipids and Myeloid Cell Function In Cancer
• Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Barth Syndrome

Patrick Kochanek, MD, MCCM
Vice Chair, Critical Care Medicine
Professor Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Pediatrics
Ake N. Grenvik Endowed Chair, Critical Care Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Director, Training in Pediatric Neuro-intensive Care and Resuscitation Research

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Cardiac Arrest
• Hypoxic Iscemic Brain Injury
• Pediatric Neurocritical Care