Cedomir Todorovic, Ph.D.
Associate Researcher
Area of Expertise ~ Neurobiology of behavior
Email: cedomir@hawaii.edu
Phone: +1 808-692-1574
Biography: My scientific experience includes more than two decades of research in behavioral neuroscience and cell and molecular biology. I completed my doctoral and postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Joachim Spiess at Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goettingen, Germany. Subsequently, our laboratory was funded by an NIH program grant in 2005 and moved to the Department of Cell and Molecular at John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The goal of that grant was to establish a new neuroscience laboratory and program for neuroscience education. As an Assistant Researcher at JABSOM, I continue to be actively involved in pursuing those goals as a researcher and educator.
Research: My initial work used mouse models to elucidate the role of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and its receptors in memory formation, anxiety, and depression. The findings were published in several journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular Psychiatry. As an extension of CRF studies, my current research focuses on c-Jun- N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling in memory and synaptic processes. JNK projects are greatly facilitated by collaboration with Dr. Roger Davis, an HHMI Investigator from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. These studies have obtained NIH funding and several awards from local state and private agencies and are published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Teaching: My teaching activities with graduate biology and medical students includes the following courses: