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Richard S Smith , PhD
Field:
Genetics, Human Biology, Neurology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology
Focus Areas:
Autism, Biomedicine, Biophysics, Epilepsy, Genetic Medicine and Health, Infant Health, Neurobiology, Neuroscience
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Kristin Samuelson
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Dept, Pediatrics Dept
About
Areas of Focus
Perinatal therapeutics, Gene therapy, RNA therapy, Antisense oligonucleotides, prenatal epilepsy, underdevelopmental disorders,
Work/Research
- Early-life ion channel disorders & pediatric epilepsy therapeutics
- Perinatal / prenatal cortical development and the role of neuronal activity
- RNA-based therapeutics, including prenatal delivery of antisense therapies
- Advanced human disease modeling: cerebral organoids + hiPSC 2D/3D systems for prenatal brain disease
- Large animal models, we use the gyrencephalic “folded” ferret model to study human-like cortical folding and neurodevelopmental disease
Career
-Recently won NIH office of the Director New Innovator award.