Organization profile

Organization profile

Director: Xuemei Huang, MD

The vision of the Penn State College of Medicine Translational Brain Research Center is to:

  • provide infrastructure and support for translational brain research studies;
  • train and mentor multidisciplinary physician-scientists and basic science researchers as future leaders in translational research; and
  • enhance community visibility and engage our patients in research partnership.

The Translational Brain Research Center is composed of:

  • a comprehensive care center for movement disorders;
  • an administrative scientific support core;
  • clinical trial management/coordination; and
  • several cross-campus multidisciplinary research cores.