Professor of biomedical engineering
Cornell University
Alex Kwan is professor of biomedical engineering at Cornell University. He is broadly interested in the neurobiology of drugs for treating depression. His work has revealed how ketamine and psychedelics act in the brain to enhance neural plasticity. Kwan supports open science by depositing and sharing data and code for all of the lab’s recent studies.
He has a B.A.Sc. in engineering physics from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University. Learn more.
Using imaging technologies, he transformed our understanding of how creativity and scientific discovery arise in the brain.
Using imaging technologies, he transformed our understanding of how creativity and scientific discovery arise in the brain.
The cells later repair the damage, which occurs mostly in transcriptionally silent parts of the genome.
The cells later repair the damage, which occurs mostly in transcriptionally silent parts of the genome.
Sensory traits and restricted and repetitive behaviors are best understood as distinct but related characteristics, the new work suggests.
Sensory traits and restricted and repetitive behaviors are best understood as distinct but related characteristics, the new work suggests.