Clifford B. Saper MD, PhD

Clifford B. Saper, James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, and Chair, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The focus of the Saper laboratory is on the integrated functions maintained by the hypothalamus, including regulation of wake-sleep cycles, body temperature, and feeding and their interactions with external stressors, ranging from immune stimuli, to food or sleep deprivation, to behavioral stress. The goal of our laboratory is to identify the neuronal circuitry that is involved in regulating these responses.