Randall Stewart, Ph.D.

Program Director, Extramural Research Program
NIH/NINDS

rs416y@nih.gov
Specialties: Voltage-dependent and ligand-gated ion channels, membrane pumps, transporters, epilepsy and epileptogenesis

Randall Stewart, Ph.D. is Program Director for Channels, Synapses, and Circuits at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). His grant portfolio focuses mainly on a subset of research areas on the epilepsies. These areas include the genetics of epilepsy, the use of EEG data to detect and predict seizures, and basic mechanisms of epilepsy and epileptogenesis. Other areas of programmatic interest to Dr. Stewart include the UC Davis/NIH-funded NeuroMab Facility (http://neuromab.ucdavis.edu), the Roadmap Affinity Capture Reagents effort (http://commonfund.nih.gov/proteincapture/overview.aspx), the NINDS-funded Voltage Sensitive Fluorescent Protein Signaling consortium, and the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (http://rarediseasesnetwork.epi.usf.edu). Dr. Stewart received his bachelor and master degrees in biology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Columbia University in New York City. He received postdoctoral training at the Biozentrum, Universität Basel in Switzerland in the laboratory of Professor John G. Nicholls and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the laboratory of Dr. Anne Feltz in Strasbourg, France. Before joining the NINDS as a Program Director, Dr. Stewart was a Research Fellow in the intramural program at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Date Last Modified Monday, March 21, 2011