Susanna Rosi
Director of Neurocognitive Research, Brain and Spinal Injury Center
University of California, San Francisco
USA
Biography
Dr. Rosi is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Neurological Surgery; she is also the Director of Neurocognitive Research in the Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC). Her areas of expertise include neuroinflammation, brain injury and cognitive functions. She obtained her PhD from the University of Florence, Italy. After completing a short Post-Doctoral Training in Italy she moved to the University of Arizona for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate position in the Neural System Memory and Aging Center under the guidance of Drs. Carol Barnes and Gary Wenk. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2006 and she received an accelerated promotion to Associate Professor in 2011 and became Director of Neurocognitive Research. She has been able to build national and international recognition in the field of Neuroscience, and among her numerous achievements she recently received the Bridging the Gap Award from the California Institute for Quantitative Bioscience (2015) and was chosen to give the 2015 Discovery Talk at the upcoming UCSF Alumni Weekend.
Research Interest
Neuroinflammation Traumatic brain injury Therapeutic cranial irradiation and cognition Space irradiation and cognition Innate immune system and cognition Synaptic plasticity, hippocampal learning and memory Plasticity-related immediate early gene Arc (activity regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein) Tumor Necrosis Factor-(TNF-α), learning and memory Prefrontal cortex injury and cognitive functions