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Brian T. David, Ph.D.
FORMER SCIENTIST

Brian T. David, Ph.D.

Former Lab Member
Spinal Cord Injury Preclinical Studies Laboratory
Burke Medical Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Director
Department of Neurosurgery

Biography

Brian T. David, PhD, completed his graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine in the Reeve-Irvine Research Center. He underwent his postdoctoral training at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and received additional training while working as a scientist at the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders and at Burke Medical Research Institute/Weill Cornell Medicine. As a neuroscientist with over 14 years of experience in spinal cord injury, David has achieved expertise in multiple rodent survival surgical procedures (various models of injury, tract tracing, cell transplantation, and bladder cystometry), behavioral assessments, and in vivo imaging. His interests include the recovery of autonomic, as well as motor and sensory, function following neurological injury. He has been actively involved in studies investigating the recovery of bladder function and the modulation of pain following spinal cord injury, with a focus on the role of the inflammatory response after injury. Recently, his research has been focused on improving the survival of transplanted Schwann cells through manipulation of transcription factors prior to transplantation. He also actively participated in the FORE-SCI replication experiments contracted by the NINDS.

Education

Degree: 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: 
Spine Biomechanics Laboratory, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Degree: 
Ph.D., Neuroscience
Institution: 
Steward Lab, Reeve-Irvine Research Center, University of California, Irvine

Recent Publications

PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
Mariajose Metcalfe, Brian T David, Brett C Langley, Caitlin E Hill
Exp Neurol . 2023 Jul 15;368:114479. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2023.114479. Online ahead of print.
Full Text on Science Direct
PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
Brian T David, Jessica J Curtin, Jennifer L Brown, Kerri Scorpio, Veena Kandaswamy, David J C Coutts, Ana Vivinetto, Paola Bianchimano, Saravanan S Karuppagounder, Mariajose Metcalfe, John W Cave, Caitlin E Hill
Glia . 2023 Mar;71(3):648-666. doi: 10.1002/glia.24302. Epub 2022 Dec 24.
Full Text on Wiley
PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
David BT, Curtin JJ, Goldberg DC, Scorpio K, Kandaswamy V, Hill CE.
eNeuro. 2019 Sep 5. pii: ENEURO.0092-19.2019. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0092-19.2019. [Epub ahead of print]
Full-Text on eNeuro