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Scott C. Baraban, PhD

Principal Investigator

Research Interests: epilepsy

I completed my undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, and spent time in the laboratories of Elliott Blass (JHU), M. Flint Beal (Harvard) and Robert DeLorenzo (MCV) before entering the Pharmacology program at the University of Virginia.  As a PhD student I studied the brainstem control of cardiorespiratory function with Patrice Guyenet and dentate granule cells with Eric Lothman.  As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Phil Schwartzkroin (University of Washington) I worked on a variety of epilepsy related projects, including the role of NPY as an endogenous anticonvulsant peptide and animal models of malformation-related epilepsy.  During these years I also worked with Richard Palmiter (HHMI) and Albert Berger (Dept. of Physiology).  In 1999, I was recruited by Dr. Mitchell Berger to the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and was named the William K. Bowes Jr. Endowed Chair in Neuroscience Research in 2008.

 

 

Education and Training

1984-1987: Johns Hopkins University (BA)
1990-1994: University of Virginia (PhD)
 

Academic Positions

1997-1999   Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, CWRU
1999-2003   Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
2003-2009   Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
2009-           Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

2014-2015   Raymond & Beverly Sackler Sabbatical Fellow, UC Berkeley

2020-           Adjunct Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

 

Selected Awards

1989  American Epilepsy Society & Milken Family Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 

1998  Epilepsy Foundation of America, Junior Investigator Research Award

1999  March of Dimes Foundation, Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Award

1999  Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, UCSF Innovation in Basic Science Award

2003  Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences

2016   American Epilepsy Society, Research Recognition Award (Basic Science)