Bruce K. Krueger

Biography

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in 1975, and sub-sequently conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow with Paul Greengard (Yale University School of Medicine) and Mordecai Blaustein (Washington University School of Medicine). I came to the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Physiology in 1979, and was promoted to Professor in 1990. I also have a secondary appointment as Professor of Psychiatry. At the present time my laboratory is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NIH). I have been the recipient of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim, and Fogarty Inter-national fellowships. During the 1991-92 academic year, I was on sabbatical leave in the laboratory of Martin Raff (University College London) studying programmed cell death (apoptosis) during brain development. My past research focused on the molecular structure and function of ion channels in excitable membranes and I continue to be co-coursemaster of "Ion Channels", offered annually to second-year Ph.D. students. I have been Director of Graduate Education for the Program in Neuroscience since 2011.

Research Interest

BDNF in the developing, adult and aging brain, Developmental mechanisms of autism,