Journal of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery

Mirela Olympia FP

Designation: Professor

Department: Neuropharmacology

Institution: Neuropharmacology

Country: United States

Dr. Mirela Olympia Fagarasan Palmer is a Professor of Neuropharmacology at the University of South California, Los Angeles. She leads a laboratory interested in understanding the fundamental neurobiological mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders to contribute to the development of new pharmacological treatments. They use genetic, neuroendocrine and neurochemical methods and recognize the role of the immune system in modulating neuropsychiatric diseases and are developing invitro cellular models and in vivo animal models to study the neuro-immune interactions under normal and disease states. She successfully combined research, teaching, administration and clinical care and continue to work on advancing our understanding of serious mental illness and drug development.She holds many patents for using modified peptides in the treatment of septic shock. 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.