He is also an investigator at MU’s Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. His current research focuses on the glial and neuronal function in the central nervous system in health and disease. A variety of state-of-the-art techniques, including two-photon in vivo fluorescent imaging, patch-clamp, molecular biology and viral transduction, are used in his research. Cellular and molecular mechanisms related to neuronal damage following ischemia are being investigated.