Beth Stutzmann's ('90) bio
Grace E. Stutzmann (Beth)
beth.stutzmann@rosalindfranklin.edu
Washington and Lee Class of 1990
Beth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Rosalind Franklin University / The Chicago Medical School. After acquiring a Masters degree in Biopsychology from Stony Brook University, she received her Ph.D in Neuroscience from New York University in The Center for Neural Science in 1999, and then completed a post doctoral fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in the departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry. During these years, she studied the neurophysiological mechanisms and treatment of affective disorders, Parkinson's disease and drug addiction. She then completed a second postdoctoral fellowship at UC Irvine, and focused on Alzheimer's disease and aging. This continues to be her current research field in her own lab. Her work focuses on alterations in intracellular signaling pathways and neuronal physiology in Alzheimer's disease early in the disease process, and identifying how these differ from the normal aging processes. Technical approaches include live-cell 2-photon calcium imaging and electrophysiological recordings, molecular biology and recombinant gene approaches, confocal imaging for anatomical studies, and stem cell therapy. In addition to basic research, she teaches in the medical school neuroscience and the molecular cell biology curriculum, and is the neurophysiology course director for Ph.D students. She lectures nationally and internationally, publishes primarily in neuroscience journals, and mentors students and post doctoral fellows in their academic careers. Current academic and industrial collaborations include studies in stem cell proliferation in aging/AD, Huntington's disease, novel therapeutics in AD, and drug addiction.