Biography

Mirela Olympia Fagarasan Palmer is a professor of Neuropharmacology in University of South California, Los Angeles, USA. She works in academia as an internationally recognized neuropharmacology and neuroimmunology researcher. She published more than 500 scientific reports in the field of neuropsychopharmacology and signal transduction. She is leading a laboratory interested in understanding the fundamental neurobiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders to contribute at development of new pharmacological treatments. She has published scientific reports on peptides, their receptors, signal transduction and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune systems. She holds patents for using modified peptides in the treatment of septic shock. She has skills and expertise in receptor pharmacology, immunohistochemistry, in vivo and in vitro cell culture, biochemistry, animal models, cell and molecular biology. She has lectured worldwide on these subjects and the others. She has 19 years of research experience with development and use of in vitro models to test compounds, such as receptor binding, receptor activation, signal transduction, receptor-receptor interactions, and induction of changes in cell cycle, proliferation and apoptosis. Furthermore She validated appropriate assays and models of diseases, screen compounds, and study mechanisms of action.

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Research Interest

Neuropsychopharmacology, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Neurodegeneration, Regeneration, Signal Transduction.