MBI Director
Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D.
Director of the MBI; professor and chair of UF’s Department of Neuroscience; co-director of the Cognitive Aging And Memory Center (CAM); co-director of MBI’s Education and Outreach Committee
MBI Deputy Director
Steven T. DeKosky M.D.
Associate director of the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; Aerts-Cosper professor of Alzheimer’s Research
MBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Jada Lewis, Ph.D.
Co-director of MBI’s Education and Outreach Committee; professor of neuroscience
MBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D.
Director of the UF Center for Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE); professor of neuroscience and physical therapy
David Borchelt, Ph.D.
Director of the SantaFe Health Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; professor of neuroscience
Sara Burke, Ph.D.
Co-director of UF’s Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research; professor of neuroscience
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D.
Director of the UF Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence; distinguished professor in the UF College of Dentistry
Catherine Flores, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in UF College of Medicine’s Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery; a principal investigator in UF’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program
Brian L. Hoh, M.D., MBA
Chair of the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery; James Brigitte Marino Family professor
Michael S. Jaffee, M.D.
Chair and professor of neurology; director of the UF Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center
Matthew J. LaVoie, Ph.D.
Fixel Family Professor Of Neurology; co-director Center of Translational Research In Neurodegenerative Disease; associate chair for research in neurology
Carol Mathews, M.D.
Director of the Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders; Brooke professor and chair of psychiatry; co-director of the UF Tourette Center of Excellence; Interim director of the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment
Kevin St.P. McNaught, Ph.D.
Chief operating officer of the McKnight Brain Institute
Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D.
Professor of psychiatry and psychology; director of the Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE); director of the Biobehavioral Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Michael Okun, M.D.
Professor and chair of Neurology; executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health
Kevin Otto, Ph.D.
Professor and senior associate chair of biomedical engineering
Laura Ranum, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for NeuroGenetics; professor of molecular genetics and microbiology
Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics; a principal investigator of the ribonucleic acid engineering laboratory at the Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy
Barry Setlow, Ph.D.
Professor of psychiatry and neuroscience
Malú G. Tansey, Ph.D.
Fixel Family Professor Of Neurology; co-director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and the Parkinson’s Foundation Research Center
David Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Professor and chair of applied physiology and kinesiology