Neurosciences Community Laboratories Staff
Mehrdad Shamloo
Professor Mehrdad Shamloo has held several positions at various biopharmaceutical companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, with demonstrated extensive focus on both CNS drug discovery and pre-clinical development. In 2008, Dr. Shamloo joined Stanford University and established the Behavioral and Functional Neuroscience Laboratory (BFNL), as well as his research laboratory, which focused on the furtherment of understanding of normal and pathological brain functions in neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), substance use disorders and pain.
Maritza Vallejo
Maritza Vallejo is the Accountant for the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Community Laboratories since March 2020. She provides financial information and monthly updates to the Directors on a monthly basis. She also works closely with lab members on financial guidance on purchases plus tracking capital assets.