Board Officers

President

Dr. Long-Jun Wu, PhD

  • Professor and Founding Director, IMM-Center for Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology
  • C. Harold and Lorine G. Wallace Distinguished University Chair

UTHealth Houston

Email: LongJun.Wu@uth.tmc.edu


Vice President

Dr. Zhiping Pang, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology

Rutgers University

Email: pangzh@rwjms.rutgers.edu


Secretary

Dr. Yang Yang, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Purdue University

Email: yangyang@purdue.edu


Treasurer

Dr. Junfang Wu, BM, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
  • Professor, Department of Anatomy Neurobiology

University of Maryland

Email: junfang.wu@som.umaryland.edu


Secretary-Elect

Dr. Xinyun Lu, PhD

  • Department chair and Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Regenreative Medicine

Augusta University

Email: XYLU@augusta.edu


Treasurer-Elect

Dr. Yongjie Yang, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Tufts University

Email: yongjie.yang@tufts.edu


Board Members

Dr Ru-Rong Ji, PhD

  • Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
  • Professor in Neurobiology
  • Professor in Cell Biology

Duke University

Email: ru-rong.ji@duke.edu


Dr Dong Sun, MD, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

Virginia Commonwealth University

Email: dong.sun@vcuhealth.org


Dr Yong Xu, MD, PhD

  • Professor, CNRC Associate Director for Basic Sciences
  • Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Baylor College of Medicine

Email: yongx@bcm.edu


Dr Judy Liu, PhD

  • Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
  • Associate Professor of Neurology

Brown University

Email: judy_liu@brown.edu


Dr Yi Ren, PhD

  • Professor, College of Medicine

Florida State University

Email: yi.ren@med.fsu.edu


Dr Shinghua Ding, PhD

  • Professor, Biological and Biomedical Engineering

University of Missouri

Email: dings@missouri.edu


Dr Fuzheng Guo, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

University of California, Davis

Email: fzguo@ucdavis.edu


Dr Yulan Xiong, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Neuroscience
  • Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program

UConn Health

Email: yxiong@uchc.edu


Dr. Zhen Yan,PhD

  • UNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

Email: zhenyan@buffalo.edu


Former Board Members

Former President
2019-2022

Dr Lin Mei, MD, PhD

  • Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosciences
  • Allen C. Holmes Professor of Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Email: lin.mei@case.edu


Board Member
2020-2023

Dr Shumin Duan, PhD

  • Professor and Dean, Department of Neurobiology
  • Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Email: duanshumin@zju.edu.cn


Board Member
2020-2023

Dr Yutian Wang, MD, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Neurology
  • Chair, Stroke Research, Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

University of British Columbia

Email: ytwang@brain.ubc.ca


Board Member
2020-2023

Dr Hanting Zhang, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience

West Virginia University

Email: hzhang@hsc.wvu.edu


Board Member

Dr. Dandan Sun, MD, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Neurology
  • Endowed chair of Brain Disorders Research

University of Pittsburgh

Email: sund@upmc.edu


Board Member

Dr Chun-Li Zhang, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
  • W.W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research

UT Southwestern

Email: chun-li.zhang@utsouthwestern.edu


Dr Richard Qing Lu, PhD

  • Beatrice C. Lampkin Endowed Chair in Cancer Epigenetics
  • Scientific Director, Brain Tumor Center
  • Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Email: richard.lu@cchmc.org


Dr Yuanxiang Tao, PhD, MD

  • Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Email: yt211@njms.rutgers.edu


Dr Hui Zheng, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Director, Huffington Center on Aging
  • Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair in Aging

Baylor College of Medicine

Email: huiz@bcm.edu