Chairman and Manucher J. Javid
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Department of Neurological Surgery

K4/822 CSC
600 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53792
(MC 8660)
P 608.263-9585
F 608.263-1728

Currently teaching these Neuroscience graduate level courses:

Mentor, M.D.-PhD Program, 1997-
Organization and Participant, Clinical Neurosciences Course, 1998-

Neuroscience research interests:

The biochemistry of ischemic brain edema and traumatic brain injury.
• Lipid changes and other factors in the formation of carotid artery atherosclerosis.
• The stimulation and modification of adult neuro progenitor stem cells in brain after focal cerebral ischemia.
• Acute management of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• Applied research in stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and trauma.
• A major new study in the laboratory is “Neurogenesis after Stroke: Effective Growth Factors”.
• The molecular Biology of Embolic Carotid diseases and its relationship to delayed cognitive impairment.