Faculty Researchers - Penn Medicine

This page lists faculty whose primary mission is research. For all labs & centers (including those directed by physician-scientists), click here and for all faculty, click here.

Faculty Principal Investigators (PIs)

Michael S. Beauchamp, PhD

Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Neurosurgery

Professor of Neurosurgery

Office: 215-573-6124 Email: Michael.Beauchamp@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Beauchamp Lab

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D. Kacy Cullen, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Office: 215-746-8176 Email: dkacy@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Cullen Lab

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Brett L. Foster, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Email: Brett.Foster@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Foster Lab

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Victoria (Vicky) Johnson, MBChB, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Email: vje@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Johnson Lab

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Bijan Pesaran, PhD

Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery

Email: Bijan.Pesaran@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Pesaran Lab

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Adam C. Resnick, PhD

Research Professor of Neurosurgery

Director, Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine

Related Link: Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine

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Andrew (Drew) Richardson, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Office: 215-746-4233 Email: Andrew.Richardson@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Richardson Lab

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Douglas H. Smith, MD

Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery

Office: 215-573-3156 Email: smithdou@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: The Smith Neurotrauma Laboratory

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Kate Wofford, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Email: kwofford@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: The Neuroinflammation and Immunomodulation Lab

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John A. Wolf, PhD

Research Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Office: 215-746-4680 Email: wolfjo@mail.med.upenn.edu Related Link: Wolf Lab

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Faculty, non-PIs

Zev Binder, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Office: 215-573-0837 Email: BinderZ@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: O'Rourke Lab

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Dennis Jgamadze, MSc, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

John C. O'Donnell, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Email: odj@pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Cullen Lab

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Denise Oswalt, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

John Magnotti, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Email: John.Magnotti@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu Related Link: Beauchamp Lab

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Alexandra Ulyanova, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Affiliated Faculty

Katalin Kariko, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery

Lachlan Smith, PhD

Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Office: 215-746-2169 Related Link: Translational Spine and Joint Research Laboratory

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Hongjun Song, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience