Brinda Desai Bradaric, PhD, is an assistant professor in the health sciences undergraduate program, where her teaching responsibilities include courses in pharmacology, neuroscience, and a number of elective courses. She is a member of the Center for Compulsive Behaviors and Addiction at Rush University. Her pre-clinical research project determines the biological link between meth addiction and Parkinson disease (PD), with particular interest in changes that occur within the olfactory bulb. She is a published expert in animal modeling of neurodegenerative diseases, immunohistochemistry, microscopy, assay development, animal behavior assessment, pharmacokinetic determination, and adverse events screening. Bradaric is also the principle investigator on a number of educational research projects that assess current and needed support tools as well as assess innovative teaching methods/styles for undergraduate bachelor students. She received her doctorate in pharmacology from Rush in 2009 and trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the area of drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases at Northwestern University.
