ISSN: 2578-6490
Associate Professor
Sanders Brown Center on Aging
Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of Kentucky, United States of America
Dr. Gregory J. Bix is a Associate Professor in Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology at University of Kentucky College of Medicine & also Clinical Lecturer (Honorary) at University of Glasgow. He received his B.A & M.A in Brandeis University, M.D. & Ph.D in Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Gregory lab is interested in the role of extracellular matrix in stroke, the third leading cause of mortality in the United States. Vascular matrix components are often very sensitive to proteolytic processing and degradation in models of focal cerebral ischemia. Often such processing will generate biologically active matrix fragments. One focus of lab is to determine how select matrix fragments affect the neurovascular unit, the functional multicellular unit that is perturbed in stroke. Another focus of lab is to determine what role these matrix fragments could play in neurodevelopment involving processes that are often recapitulated in response to CNS injury.
