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Kathy Steece-Collier, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center

Kathy Steece-Collier is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL. She earned both her BS in Biology and Chemistry with honors from Eureka College in 1981. She then completed her PhD in the Department of Physiology and biophysics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Health Sciences Center in 1987. From 1986 to 1990 Steece-Collier worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester School of Medicine under mentor Dr. J.R. Sladek, Jr. The research interests of her laboratory are aimed at understanding mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease and development of experimental therapeutics to forestall progression of the disease and/or allow for improved symptomatic benefit in PD patients. Steece-Collier has won awards from several institutions such as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Schweppe Foundation.

Associated Grants

  • Aberrant Striatal Morphology: Impact on Therapeutic Efficacy in PD

    2007


  • The Role of Subclinical Rejection in Graft-mediated Dyskinesias

    2003


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