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Dr. Bobby Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease, with special emphasis on stress signaling pathways involved in toxin and genetic models of Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Thomas received his Masters in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and his PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India where he studied the role of nitric oxide and hydroxyl radicals in MPTP-neurotoxicity. Subsequently he joined the laboratory of Dr. Ted Dawson at Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral fellow in 2002 where he investigated gene-environment interaction in familial mouse models of Parkinson's disease. Dr. Thomas went on to join the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York as an Instructor in 2006 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in August 2008. Dr. Thomas’s current research interests include mitochondrial dysfunction and stress signaling cascades in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease.

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