Jeffrey Loeb, MD, PhD
John S. Garvin Endowed Chair in Neurology, Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation and Co-Director of the Biomedical Informatics Core, University of Illinois at Chicago

“A systems biology approach to understand and develop new treatments for epilepsy”

Abstract

Dr. Loeb is a practicing neurologist, epileptologist and neuroscientist who currently holds the John S. Garvin Chair, Professor and Head of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation. He received his A.B. in Chemistry, M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. After completing a residency in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School where he also had fellowship training in epilepsy at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Dr. Loeb conducted postdoctoral work in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Gerald Fischbach where he became interested in how understanding early neural development can teach us what goes wrong in human disease and suggest new treatments. His work in epilepsy patients has led to a one-of-a-kind large-scale, systems biology project of human brain tissues that links the genes, molecular and cellular signals that underlie the abnormal electrical activities that characterize this common neurological disorder. Dr. Loeb is director of the University of Illinois NeuroRepository, co-director of biomedical informatics in UIC’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and Chief Clinical Strategist for the Sturge-Weber Foundation.