Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
Fuwen Zhou, MD, PhD.
Special Interests:
Cellular and molecular basis of epilepsy and co-morbidity
Fu-Wen Zhou, MD, PhD, received his MD (1992) and MSc in Pharmacology (1999) from Hunan Medical University (currently named Xiang-Ya School of Medicine) in Hunan, China. He received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology, from University of Rostock, Germany in 2005. After leaving Germany for the United States he became a post-doctoral fellow in 2005 and a year later a research associate from 2006-2008 at University of Tennessee, Memphis. He joined the faculty of the University of Florida's Department of Neurosurgery in August of 2008.
Dr. Zhou's major research interest is cellular and molecular basis of intractable epilepsy and its cognitive and psychosocial co-morbidity, and their stem cell therapy. Studies are carried out both in vitro and in vivo through a combination of techniques in patch clamp electrophysiology (e.g. dual whole cell recording in slice), immunohistochemistry (e.g. triple staining), behavioral testing (e.g. Morris water maze) and molecular biology (e.g. single cell RT-PCR in combination with patch clamp).
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