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    John A. Stanford, PhD

    Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
    University of Kansas School of Medicine
    Kansas City, Kansas, United States

    Dr. Stanford is a neuroscientist with over 30 years of experience in biomedical research, including over 20 years of funding for preclinical studies of aging and neurological conditions that affect motor function. Dr. Stanford’s research combines the use of operant behavioral methods to obtain clinically‐analogous measures of motor function in rodents, and to implement resistance training protocols in rats. He was the first to report bulbar deficits in mouse and rat models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and has recently conducted studies examining forelimb and tongue resistance training on neuromuscular function in the rat model of ALS. He is also interested in the effects of metabolic challenges on neural function to understand the co-morbidity between obesity and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Stanford is the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He is the Program Coordinator of the Kansas IDeA Network in Biomedical Research Excellence and is a Fellow and the current President of the American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair.

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