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Onder Albayram PhD

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  • Associate Professor
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  • College of Medicine
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  • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Academic Focus
  • Mechanistic and Causative Role of p17 in Mediating Endogenous Neuroprotective Mitochondrial Stress Response in Neurodegeneration and Brain Injury
  • Mechanisms Underlying the Distinct Age-Dependent Effects of the Endocannabinoid Systems Activity in the Brain
  • Mechanistic Role of Meningeal Lymphatic Vasculature and Immunity in the Brain, Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Biography

Dr. Albayram is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory and Department of Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Albayram has completed a M.S. in neuropharmacology at the Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He has completed the Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn in Germany. Dr. Albayram completed his faculty training in Translational Neuroscience perspective at Harvard Medical School.

His research focuses on three principal areas: 1) The functions and relationships of the glymphatic system and brain lymphatics in health and disease. 2) Cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating mitochondrial stress response in brain aging and its involvement in trauma- ans stress-mediated brain disorders; 3) Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the distinct age-dependent effects of the cannabinoid system activity  in the brain.

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