Kornblum Lab
The Kornblum lab, established in 1994 is a vibrant, multidisciplinary environment, performing basic and translational studies directed at unraveling neurological and neuropsychiatric disease with the hopes of developing novel and effective treatments.
Harley Kornblum MD, PhD
Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD, is currently a Professor of Psychiatry, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a Pediatric Neurologist, and is the Founding Director of the UCLA Neural Stem Cell Research Center. He is a Principal Investigator and Associate Director of the UCLA Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and a member of The Brain Research Institute, The Molecular Biology Institute, The Broad Stem Cell Research Center and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA. His degrees include a BA in Biology from Washington University and a PhD, and MD from UC Irvine. His research interests include the biology and use of neural stem cells, brain development, brain tumors, neural repair and autism.
Kornblum Lab
The Kornblum lab is an interdisciplinary, highly interactive multi-tier environment. Lab members range from highly talented local high school students, to UCLA undergraduates and graduate student to postdoctoral scholars and research faculty members. Members of the lab have expertise in molecular and cellular biology, pharmacology, bioinformatics, stem cell biology, vascular biology and behavioral neuroscience, performing basic and translational research. The research in the Kornblum lab, either basic or translational is founded on the common goal of arriving at novel therapeutics for diseases of the nervous system. The main areas of research interest are brain tumor biology and therapeutics, the development of the nervous system, autistic spectrum disorder and spinal cord injury, although the lab has research experience in a number of different areas. Members of the Kornblum lab are interact with each other on a daily basis and engage in collaborations with other laboratories at UCLA and around the world.