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Huxing Cui, PhD

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Pharmacology

Office Phone: (319) 335-6954
Lab Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: huxing-cui@uiowa.edu

Huxing Cui received his PhD in Psychiatry/Neurology from the University of Kobe and completed his postdoctoral training at UT Southwestern Medical Center and later in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa. In April of 2016, he joined faculty in the Department of Pharmacology to establish his own laboratory. While not working, he enjoys swimming, fishing, playing soccer, and traveling.

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Jingwei (Jane) Jiang, MD, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist

Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: jingwei-jiang@uiowa.edu


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Uday Singh, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: uday-singh@uiowa.edu

Uday's hometown, Palampur is under the foothills of Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh), India. He completed Ph.D program in Life Sciences at NISER, Bhubaneswar (India). During his PhD his primary focus was on the neuroanatomical substrates regulating endocrine and rewards functions. There he worked on mammalian (rat and mouse) and nonmammalian vertebrates (Fish) species. He joined Department of Pharmacology in July, 2017. As a post-doctoral scholar, he is particularly interested to decipher the divergent neurocircuitry contorting sleep, cardiovascular and metabolic functions. By doing small animal surgeries in different mouse models, he is using state-of-the-art neuroscience tools to achieve his goals.

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Gary) Deng, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Address: 2-300 BSB
Phone: (319) 384-3020
Email: guorui-deng@uiowa.edu

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