NAME:CONRAD JOHANSON
DEPT: Clinical Neuroscience
ORGANIZATION: Brown University Medical School
ADDRESS: 593 Eddy Street, Aldrich Bldg. 401, Providence, RI 02903
TELEPHONE No: 401-444-8739
FAX No: 401-444-8727
E MAIL ADDRESS: Conrad_Johanson@Brown.edu
TITLE: Professor of Clin. Neurosci.; Director of Neurosurgery Research

TOTAL GRANTS: 7 NIH grants over my career
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: 80
MEMBERSHIPS ON EDITORIAL BOARDS: Frontiers in Bioscience; Reviewer or field editor for 40 biomedical journals

SUBJECT(S) OF RESEARCH: cerebrospinal fluid; choroid plexus; blood-brain barrier; hydrocephalus; ischemia; Alzheimer's disease
DISCIPLINE(S): neuroscience; physiology; pharmacology
ORGAN SYSTEMS: brain; eye; secretory glands
TISSUES: brain; spinal cord; choroid plexus; kidney; liver
CELL(S): choroid epithelial; arachnoid; ependymal
MOLECULE(S): growth factors; neuropeptides; transport proteins; Na, K and Cl
TECHNIQUE(S): epithelial cell culture; in vivo choroid plexus-CSF; in vitro choroid plexus