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Luis Lujan, PhD

Associate Dean of Student Affairs; Associate Professor
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States

J. Luis Lujan, M.S., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the departments of Neurologic Surgery and Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Lujan is also the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Lujan serves as director of multiple training programs including the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development, and the Summer Research Fellowship. He is also director of the Mayo Clinic Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and Research Training.

Dr. Lujan's research focuses on understanding and influencing brain function following neural injury and disease. His interdisciplinary approach spans neuroscience, engineering, mathematics, and computer science to bridge clinical, translational, pre-clinical, and basic science research and elucidate intricacies of brain function. Dr. Lujan focuses on treating injury and movement / psychiatric disorders using invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation, including deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation, optogenetics, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Using in vivo and ex vivo techniques, including electrophysiology, calcium imaging, electrochemistry, computational modeling, and behavioral analysis, Dr. Lujan explores how neuromodulation shapes neural plasticity and behavior. His goal is to advance therapies for conditions like Parkinson’s disease, depression, anxiety, alcohol use disorder, pain, and spinal cord injury.

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