Santhakumar lab

SANTHAKUMAR LAB

Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience

In the Santhakumar lab, we are dedicated to studying the effects of interneuronal microcircuit plasticity in Epilepsy and hippocampal pathophysiology after brain injury.

recent news

12/2017 - Congratulations to Archana for successfully defending her thesis.

09/2017 - Study from our lab (Eric et al, Stem Cell Reports) featured in Science daily.

12/2016 - Congratulations to Viji on award of a 1 year Pilot grant from Rutgers Brain Health Institute for a collaborative proposal with Namas Chandra (NJIT) to study Epilepsy after blast brain injury and continued FY2 funding from Rutgers Brain Health Institute for a collaborative proposal with Tracy Tran (RU-N) to study Interneuron circuit plasticity in Autism Epilepsy Co-morbidity.

12/2016- Congratulations to Milad on award 2016 Grass Young Investigator Travel Award by the American Epilepsy Society.

11/2016- Congratulations to Archana for her poster being invited for a NanoSymposium Presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

09/2016- Congratulations to lab on award of a 3 year NJCBIR Research Grant:CBIR16IRG017 (http://www.nj.gov/health/njcbir/documents/2016_grant_directory.pdf) to study Neurogenesis after traumatic brain injury.