Christopher W. Cowan PhD
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Biography
Dr. Christopher Cowan joined the Medical University of South Carolina as the William E. Murray SmartState Endowed Chair in Neuroscience in 2016, and he serves currently as Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at MUSC. Dr. Cowan earned his BA from Wesleyan University (CT) and his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital in the area of molecular neurobiology. He was a faculty member at UT Southwestern Medical School and Harvard Medical School prior to moving his lab to MUSC. Dr. Cowan’s NIH-funded research lab focuses on both neurodevelopmental disorders and substance use disorder, and it utilizes an integrated approach to study these disorders – spanning from genetics and epigenetics, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, electrophysiology to complex behavioral analyses.