Michigan Brain Bank Director (2021 - )
Dr. Barmada, M.D. Ph.D., is Associate Professor
of Neurology, and the Angela Dobson and Lyndon Welch Research Professor of
Neurology at the University of Michigan. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. in the
Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University in St. Louis, and
completed his neurology residency and postdoctoral training at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Gladstone Institutes, both in San
Francisco, CA. His research takes advantage of a broad toolkit of innovative
technologies and methods involving fluorescence microscopy, computer science
and engineering, bioinformatics, genome engineering and molecular biology to
investigate important yet unanswered questions in neurodegenerative disease. Neuropathologist Dr. Andrew Lieberman is the Abrams Collegiate Professor of Pathology and Director of
Neuropathology at the University of Michigan Medical School.
He received his BS from Duke University and his MD, PhD from the
University of Maryland Medical School.
He completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology and fellowship
training in Neuropathology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lieberman’s research is focused on the
mechanism of neurodegeneration in inherited neurological disorders. Matthew D. Perkins, B.S.Michigan Brain Bank Coordinator (2014 - )
Matthew Perkins is the
Michigan Brain Bank coordinator. He has
been involved in research, specifically movement disorders and dementia related disease, since 2012.
Matthew manages and trains Michigan Brain Bank laboratory staff, coordinates the Michigan Brain Bank's autopsy services, performs research recovery services for Michigan Brain Bank's collaborating clinics and studies, as well as, research groups across the country, and collaborates with
research groups across the University of Michigan campus and throughout the United States. He is passionate about
improving clinical care and research through his involvement in the Michigan Brain Bank. Matthew earned his Bachelor of Science in Brain, Behavior, and
Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan.
Kyra Strachan, B.A. Michigan Brain Bank Laboratory Technician (2020- ) Kyra is a laboratory technician for the Michigan Brain Bank. She
graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Biopsychology Cognition
Neuroscience and has been involved with research at the university since 2019.
She fulfills tissue requests and assists with the Michigan Brain Bank’s autopsy
services.
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