Prof. James Lechleiter University of Texas Health Science Center, USA

Dr. Lechleiter joined the department in March, 2000. He served as a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Study Panels on Instrumentation Development for Biomedical Research and served on Signal Transduction and Regulation. Dr. Lechleiter has extensive experience with imaging technology, its application towards current problems in cell biology... read moreand is the director of the institutional Optical Imaging facility. His current research interest is on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of protection during ischemic stress, acute brain injury and aging. A major focus is understanding the role of astrocyte mitochondrial energy production in these processes.