Alex Kwan
Associate Professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
Key Impact
He is a leading psychedelic neuroscience researcher whose work has helped explain how psilocybin and ketamine alter dendritic and circuit-level plasticity linked to antidepressant effects.
Background & Research
Alex C. Kwan is an Associate Professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. He previously held an associate professorship in the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine, and his training includes engineering physics at Simon Fraser University and applied physics at Cornell University. His research focuses on the neural circuits and structural plasticity underlying rapid-acting antidepressants and psychedelics.
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