Academic publisher Portland Press has announced the appointment of Aideen Sullivan, Professor of Neuroscience in University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal, Neuronal Signaling.
Professor Sullivan directs an active research programme focused on neuroprotective approaches to the treatment of Parkinson's disease and has a particular expertise in neurotrophic factors, which have the potential to reverse the degeneration of dopamine neurons that underlies Parkinson's.
A major aim of her current research is to elucidate the signaling pathways used by dopaminergic neurotrophic factors, and to develop modulators of these signaling pathways using in vivo and cell culture models of Parkinson's disease. In addition to her preclinical research, she is involved in clinical studies on non-motor and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease. Professor Sullivan was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at UCC in 1998 where she established the first BSc in Neuroscience in Ireland and is currently Director of this degree programme.
Professor Sullivan is a member of FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies), Neuroscience Ireland and NECTAR (Network of European CNS Transplantation and Restoration).
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