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Gordon Mitchell
Gordon Mitchell
Steenbock Professor of Behavioral and Neural Science, Professor and Chair of Comparative Biosciences, Professor of Neuroscience, Director of Respiratory Neurobiology Training Program
Organ System/Disease Focus:Traumatic and Neurodegenerative disease, Spinal Cord Injury, ALS
Aligned Research Focus: Induced spinal plasticity and it's importance to regenerative medicine in neurodegenerative disease, spinal cord injury, and sleep apnea. Integrative studies spanning molecular biology through whole animals and human patients. Intermittent hypoxia as a stimulus to spinal plasticity and induced functional recovery.