Jie Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Staff Scientist
Director, Epilepsy Research
Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory

Dr. Wu obtained his M.D. in Xuzhou Medical College, P.R. China (1983), and his Ph.D. in Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, P.R. China (1990). From 1993-1994, he was trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan. He expanded his training between 1994 and 1996 as a Research Associate at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and from 1997-1998, he received academe title of Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico. Since coming to Barrow, Dr. Wu has established an electrophysiology laboratory for epilepsy research and for neurophysiological study. 

Dr. Wu is an experienced electrophysiologist, with seventeen years of research experience using a variety of electrophysiological techniques, including patch-clamp recordings from single dissociated neurons, cultured cells and brain slices, and extracellular (field potentials) and intracellular recordings from in vitro and in vivo animal models.  Recent ongoing research projects in Dr. Wu's laboratory include cellular and molecular mechanisms of epileptogenesis in animal models and in epilepsy human tissues; cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of neurodegeneration diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease; and structure-function relationship of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and nicotine addiction.  Dr. Wu has published more than forty peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters and has been invited to present lectures nationally and internationally as an expert in the neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neuropathophysiology research fields. He is currently a member of the American Epilepsy Society as well as the Society for Neuroscience and is an Adjunct Professor in Bioengineering at Arizona State University.