Principal Investigator
Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD
Director, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Adaptive and Maladaptive Plasticity in Sensory and Motor Systems
Our lab studies how different forms of neuronal plasticity contribute both to adaptive and maladaptive changes in the mammalian nervous system in relation to pain, inflammation, regeneration and neurodegenerative diseases. We aim to develop novel therapies for neurological diseases by combining the best of academia and industry using new unbiased high throughput phenotypic approaches to identify targets and screen for novel drug candidates.
Lab Staff
Research Fellows
Omer Barkai, PhD
Research Fellow
Research Focus Areas: neurophysiology, behavior, computational neuroscience, machine learning.
Kuchuan Chen, PhD
Research Fellow
Research Focus Areas: ALS, neurodegeneration, CRISPR screen.
Keunjung Heo, PhD
Research Fellow
Research Focus Areas: neuroregeneration, neurodegeneration, ALS, assembloids, drug screening.
Veselina Petrova, PhD
Research Fellow
Research Focus Areas: chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, neurodegeneration, neuroregeneration, drug screening, in vitro pain models.
Xiangsunze Zeng, PhD
Research Fellow
Research Focus Areas: spontaneous neuropathic pain, central sensitization, pain circuitry.
Former Graduate Students
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Michio Painter, Harvard Medical School
David Roberson, Harvard Medical School
Andrew Snavely, Harvard Medical School
Jared Sprague, Harvard Dental School
Nesibe Temiz, Harvard Medical School
Nivanthika Wimalasena, Harvard Medical School
Zihe Zhang, Harvard Medical School
Sara Hakim, Harvard Medical School
Christian Brenneis, PhD
Liam Browne, PhD
Elizabeth Buttermore, PhD
Yung-Chih Cheng, PhD
Yu-Ting Cheng, PhD
Isaac Chiu, PhD
Enrique Cobos del Moral, PhD
Michael Costigan, PhD
Shane Cronin, PhD
Simmie Foster, MD, PhD
Nader Ghasemlou, PhD
Sara Hakim, PhD
Laurel Heckman, PhD
Junwei Huang, PhD
Xuan Huang, PhD
Eric Huebner, MD, PhD
Tammy Szu-Yu Ho, PhD
Perrine Inquimbert, PhD
Aakanksha Jain, PhD
Selwyn Jayakar, PhD
Andrew Kaplan, PhD
Hyoung Woo Kim, PhD
Georgios Kimourtzis, PhD
Masakazu Kotoda, MD, PhD
Cedric Laedermann, PhD
Alexandra Latini, PhD
Alban Latrémolière, PhD
Bruna Lenfers Turnes, PhD
Seungkyu Lee, PhD
Yisi Lu, PhD
Chi (Eddie) Ma, PhD
Takao Omura, MD, PhD
Roshan Pandey, PhD
Rasheen Powell, PhD
David Roberson, PhD
Kasper Roet, PhD
Miyuki Sakuma, MD, PhD
Joachim Scholtz, MD
Corey Seehus, PhD
Rhona Seijffers, PhD
Jaehoon Shim, PhD
Bhagat Singh, PhD
Sebastien Talbot, PhD
Daniel Taub, PhD
Ivan Tochitsky, PhD
Christian von Hehn, MD, PhD
Brian Wainger, MD, PhD
Luke Wang, MD
David Yarmolinsky, PhD
Ajay Yekkirala, PhD
Zihe Zhang, PhD