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Christopher A. Ross, M.D., Ph.D., Director
 Christopher
Ross is Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. in
Neuroscience at Cornell University School of Medicine and had clinical
training in Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He
then pursued post-doctoral work in the laboratories of Solomon
Snyder at Johns Hopkins and Axel Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute
in Martinsreid, Germany. His lab focuses on the neurobiology and
neurogenetics of neuropsychiatric disorders including Huntington's
disease, Dentato-rubral and pallido-luysian atrophy, Parkinson's
disease, schizophrenia, and others. He is Director of the Huntington's
Disease Center at Johns Hopkins, one of the two NIH funded centers
for the study of HD in the United States. The research in the different
groups in the Center ranges from constructing cell and mouse models
of HD to clinical and imaging studies of HD patients to clinical
trials of novel therapeutic agents.
He has sponsored trainees at the predoctoral, postdoctoral, and
junior faculty levels, and his former trainees have faculty positions
in the US, Europe, and Japan.
Program Affiliations
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Director, Laboratory of
Molecular Neurobiology
Director, Baltimore Huntington's Disease Center
Director, HDSA Center of Excellence for Huntington's disease
Member, Johns Hopkins Clinician Scientist review committee
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