
MOLECULAR AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROLOGY LABORATORY
LAB MEMBERS
| Jeffrey
A. Loeb, M.D., Ph.D. |
|
Dr. Loeb is a practicing
neurologist who is a Professor in the Department of
Neurology and the Associate Director of The Center for
Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University. He received his M.D. and Ph.D.
from the University
of Chicago. He subsequently completed a
residency in Neurology at the Massachusetts
General Hospital
in Boston and fellowship
training in epilepsy at Harvard's Beth Israel
Hospital. Dr. Loeb conducted postdoctoral
work in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard
Medical School with Dr.
Gerald Fischbach where he became interested in how
understanding brain development can teach us what goes wrong
in human disease and suggest new treatments. He developed a
novel way to create biologically targeted protein
therapeutics that formed the basis for a biopharmaceutical
company he formed in Michigan called
GlyTag. He also directs a
project to develop new treatments for human epilepsy through
the identification of the genes, molecular and cellular
signals that underlie the abnormal electrical activities
that characterize this common neurological disorder. More recently, Dr. Loeb has joined
forces with the newly formed ALS Clinical and Research Center at Wayne State University with a
goal of developing a better molecular understanding as well
as targeted therapeutics.