Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D.

Guohong Cui, M.D., Ph.D., leads the In Vivo Neurobiology Group in the NIEHS Neurobiology Laboratory and holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory. His group studies voluntary movements in healthy animals and in animal models of neurological disorders. They try to synthesize task-specific neural activity maps by monitoring and manipulating molecular and cellular events in genetically defined groups of neurons in behaving animals. Their current research is focused on how dopamine impacts the activity of the basal ganglia circuits in vivo. They are also looking for treatments that can slow down the progressive loss of dopamine neurons in various mouse models of Parkinson's disease.

Dr. Cui received his M.D. from Peking University Health Science Center in 1998 and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He was a postdoc fellow at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He came to NIEHS as a tenure-track investigator in 2014.