Randall Stewart, Ph.D.

Randall Stewart, Ph.D. is Program Director for Channels, Synapses, and Circuits at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). His grant portfolio focuses on basic mechanisms of epilepsy and epileptogenesis with an emphasis on the contribution of abnormal channels (channelopathies) to epilepsy. Recently, through workshops, conferences and grants, he has become involved with the seizure detection and seizure prediction research community. Dr. Stewart also coordinates the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs at NINDS. Other areas of programmatic interest to Dr. Stewart include the UC Davis/NIH NeuroMab Facility, the NINDS-funded Voltage Sensitive Fluorescent Protein Signaling consortium and the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network. Dr. Stewart received his bachelor and master degrees in biology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Columbia University in New York City. He received postdoctoral training at the Biozentrum, Universität Basel in Switzerland in the laboratory of Professor John G. Nicholls and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in the laboratory of Dr. Anne Feltz in Strasbourg, France. Before joining the NINDS as a Program Director, Dr. Stewart was a Research Fellow in the intramural program at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.