Craig Weiss

Craig Weiss is a Research Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. His work is supported by affiliations with the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease and the Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics.

Education:

• PhD, Northwestern University (1986)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, Neurobiology (1991)

Dr. Weiss's research centers on learning and memory, Alzheimer's disease, and aging. Using electrophysiology, fMRI, and behavioral studies in animal models (including rabbits and transgenic mice), he investigates the roles of the hippocampus and cerebellum in cognitive processes and their decline with age and disease.

His recent publications (2024-2025) address aging-related topics such as neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury, gait changes in nerve injury models, and muscle recovery in viral pneumonia. This continues his long-standing focus on the biological mechanisms of memory and aging, as seen in his 1998 work on spatial learning in mice.

Dr. Weiss serves on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neuroscience and as an Advisor for the Rhode Island Research Alliance. He is a member of several Northwestern research institutes including the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment, NUCATS, and the Stephen M. Stahl Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience.

No scientific awards were listed in the provided information. Details about students, grants, and specific laboratory teams were not provided.