Stroke Research At Duke

Stroke Research At Duke

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Duke is a global hub for clinical, translational, and basic stroke research. Learn more about what the Duke Neurology Department and our partners across Duke are doing to help us better understand, treat, prevent, and help people recover from stroke below.

Stroke Research Within the Neurology Department

Duke Neuromodulation and Stroke Recovery Lab

Wuwei "Wayne" Feng's research focuses on developing and investigating non-invasive brain stimulation tools for post-stroke recovery, especially the upper extremity motor recovery.

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Brain Injury Translational Research Center

Daniel Laskowitz, Brad Kolls, and Haichen Wang are investigating the genetic factors and molecular mechanisms that underlie the brain’s response to acute injury and chronic degeneration over time.

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Brian Mac Grory

Brian Mac Grory's clinical research focuses on stroke at the population level and central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO or "eye stroke").

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William Powers

William Powers is a pioneering expert in the use of EVT to treat stroke.

Shreyansh Shah

Vascular Neurologist Shreyansh Shah's research interests include neurorehabilitation and stroke at the population level.

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Sara Hassani

Research Fellow and Physician Sara Hassani's expertise includes atherosclerotic carotid artery disease and other topics

Duke Neurosurgery

David Hasan, MD

David Hasan is an scientist neurosurgeon and international authority in cerebrovascular research.

Erik Hauck

Neurosurgeon Erik Hauck's research and clinical focus is cerebrovascular disease, specifically the treatment of brain aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, carotid disease, and stroke.

Ali Zomorodi, MD

Ali Zomorodi specializes in skull base tumors, certain vascular tumors that affect the brain, brain aneurysms, and strokes.

Stroke Research Across Duke

Junjie Yao, PhD

Junji Yao, PhD, is developing state-of-the-art photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies and translate those technologies into diagnostic and therapeutic applications for brain imaging.

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Tatiana Segura, PhD

Duke Neurobiology's Tatiana Segura is designing new hydrogels and other biomaterial interventions that can promote brain plasticity after stroke.

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G. Allan Johnson, PhD

G. Allan Johnson is involved in both the engineering physics required to extend the resolution of MR imaging and in a broad range of applications in the basic sciences.

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Huaxin Sheng, MD

Duke Anesthesiology's Huaxin Sheng has developed various rodent models of brain and spinal cord injuries.

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Wei Yang, PhD, MS

Wei Yang has been awarded a five-year NINDS grant to study the unfolded protein response and neuroprotection in stroke.

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Christopher Lascola, MD, PhD

Neuroradiologist Christopher Lascola more than 20 years of clinical neuroradiology experience with basic science expertise in diagnostic MR development.