Gretchen N. Neigh, Ph.D.
Director of Translational Research
Email: Gretchen.McCandless@vcuhealth.org
Dr. Neigh is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Neigh’s research focuses on understanding the biological mechanisms that dictate risk and resilience to stress exposure with the goal of determining how to prevent and treat mental and physical disease. Her work focuses on periods of increased plasticity and susceptibility to insults such as adolescence, late life, and in the context of HIV. In addition, Dr. Neigh assesses the role of sex differences in the manifestation of risk and resilience. Dr. Neigh has received funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Claude Pepper Center, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute for Nursing Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Virginia Alzheimer’s and Related Disease Research Award Fund. In addition to her research program, Dr. Neigh is an Associate Director of the VCU MD/PhD Program and co-Director of the VCU Clinical and Translational PhD Program. Outside of VCU, Dr. Neigh is the current Chair of the Biological Rhythms, Learning and Ethology (BRLE) Study Section for NIH, is a past council member and secretary for the Organization for the Study of Sex Difference (OSSD), previously served as the inaugural social media editor for Neuropsychopharmacology, and serves on the editorial boards of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Neuropsychopharmacology, Hormones & Behavior, and Physiology & Behavior. More information about her work can be found at: http://gretchenneigh.com.