Ravi Allada

Ravi Allada is the Edward C. Stuntz Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Chair of the Department of Neurobiology, and Associate Director for the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology at Northwestern University. Dr. Allada received his M.D from the University of Michigan and completed a residency in Clinical Pathology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During his graduate and postdoctoral training, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Scholar and an HHMI Physician Postdoctoral Fellow. Since joining Northwestern in 2000, the Allada laboratory has discovered new pieces of the core circadian clock including a link to neurodegenerative disease as well as components controlling daily rhythms of sleep and wake. His laboratory has also identified molecular processes underlying sleep including those linked to memory processing. His recent work also extends discoveries in the fly to mammalian systems including the development of diagnostic biomarker signatures in humans. His work has been funded by the NIH, DARPA as well as numerous private foundations including a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.

May 2016