Debra Bangasser, Ph.D.
Neuroscience
Georgia State University
Recruited: 2022
Debra Bangasser’s research seeks to improve understanding of the basic neuroscience mechanisms underlying stress in males and females — all to help develop more therapeutics that work well across the sexes. The dramatic differences observed in many stress-related disorders, and the increasing evidence that existing therapies do not work equally well in men and women, underscore the importance of her work.
At Georgia State University, Bangasser leads the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, which explores the neurobiology of social behavior, memory, cognition and other areas. The CBN was established with funding from National Science Foundation (NSF) and from GRA to conduct collaborative research, training and community outreach. In more than 20 years conducting research, the center has pioneered new approaches to “team” science with the development of research “collaboratories” to investigate how social factors can shape the structure and function of the brain.
Bangasser also plays a central role in the CBN Stress and Trauma Consortium, an area of the recently funded RISE Initiative. This interdisciplinary consortium involves faculty, staff and students from different departments and colleges at Georgia State, as well as faculty from Grady Hospital and Emory University.
