Philip Copenhaver, PhD
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Affiliation(s):
Oregon Health & Science University
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Areas of Interest:
Alzheimer's disease, developmental neuroscience
Biography & Research:
After undergraduate studies at Stanford University, Philip Copenhaver attended graduate school in the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received his Ph.D. with Dr. James Truman in 1985. He spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Paul Taghert in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, and an additional year with Dr. William Moody at the University of Washington. He joined the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Oregon Health & Science University in 1990 as an Assistant Professor; was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, and to Professor in 2011. Dr. Copenhaver currently serves as the director for the Graduate Program in Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) and director for the Development, Differentiation, and Disease (D3) in the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PBMS). He is also a member and course director in the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP), and is a primary instructor for human embryology in the medical school
