Lili C. Kudo, PhD
President and Co-Founder
Lili C. Kudo, PhD obtained her ScB in Electrical Engineering/Physics from Brown University in 1993, her MA in Secondary Science Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York in 1996, and her PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA in 2005.
Dr. Kudo’s experiences in research include integration of electrical and mechanical engineering of semiconductor processing of microactuators, semiconductor chemical vapor deposition technique, production and characterization of a two-dimensional electron gas with a superconduction gate under the influence of magnetic fields.
Dr. Kudo pursued secondary teaching and education of mathematics and science after her undergraduate work (MA, Columbia University) and later changed course to study neuroscience, where she applied her background in engineering and physics (PhD, UCLA). In neuroscience, she has worked with magnetoencephalography (MEG) NYU Medical Center, Rhesus macaques for electrophysiology studies, and various histological and molecular techniques, as well as combining bioinformatics and bench work. In her postdoctoral training, Dr. Kudo focused on the identification of the disease modifiers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia using a combination of laser capture microdissection, microarray technology and transgenic mice.
Dr. Kudo’s expertise is in electrical engineering, neuroscience and microarray technology.
Stan Karsten, PhD
Co-founder
Stan Karsten, PhD, Chief, Division of Neuroscience at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, is a Chair of the Board.
Dr. Karsten graduated from St. Petersburg State University (LGU), one of the top schools of the former Soviet Union with M.S. in Biochemistry and Genetics. He received his Ph.D. (Doctor of Medicine) in Medical Genetics and Pathology from Uppsala University in 2000.
Dr. Karsten laboratory specializes in functional genomics to identify mechanisms, biomarkers and drug targets for neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Karsten has broad expertise in methods development and optimization. Dr. Karsten has 20 years of experience in molecular biology, human genetics and functional genomics.
Dr. Karsten has held a position of Assistant Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and had received grants from the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, NIH/NINDS, Society for Progresive Supranuclear Palsy, Judith and Jean Pape Adams Charitable Foundation, Alzheimer Association, NARSAD and other agencies.
In April 2006, Dr. Karsten together with Dr. Kudo and Dr. Bragin founded NeuroInDx, Inc. Dr. Karsten has several patents and 40 publications including peer-reviewed papers in Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.
Dr. Karsten’s expertise is in molecular biology, functional genomics and its applications in neuroscience.
Anatol Bragin, PhD
Vice-President and Co-founder
Dr. Bragin received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity (Moscow, Russia) and his Doctor of Science Degree from the Institute of Biophysics Russian Academy of Science.
During his graduate studies he designed the X-Z micromanipulator for recording unit activity on freely moving animals. After defending his PhD thesis he designed a setup for recording electrical activity from brain slices in vitro, the first of its kind in Russia.
In UCLA Seizure Disorder Center, Dr. Bragin developed several setups for recording EEG and unit activity in freely moving animals, for in vitro experiment in brain slices and for juxtacellular labeling of single neurons during electrophysiological experiments. Dr. Bragin also designed spaced microelectrodes for analysis of voltage depth profiles of high frequency oscillations in the brain of epileptic patients.
Dr. Bragin trained in the world’s top research laboratories including the laboratory of Dr. Buzsaki at the Center of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, NJ and at UCLA Seizure Disorder Center (Director Dr. Engel, J. Jr).
Dr. Bragin’s expertise is in neurophysiology, epilepsy and advanced engineering automation. Dr. Bragin authored more than 100 publications.