Matthew C. Havrda PhD

Dr. Havrda is a neurobiologist interested in characterizing the molecular basis of brain disorders, especially Parkinson’s disease and its various pathologic manifestations. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering of the University of Maine at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. Dr. Havrda is an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth affiliated with the Parkinson’s Center at Dartmouth working at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Throughout his career he has published numerous research reports and book chapters while receiving academic awards including the Ian Sinclair Scholarship, the Apollon Valakis Scholarship and the Doris G. Alexander Memorial Scholarship. More recently Dr. Havrda has received prestigious young investigator awards including the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, the Dartmouth SYNERGY Scholar Award for Clinical and Translational Research, and a Target Validation Award from the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Dr. Havrda’s research program is focused on characterizing the molecular basis of neuroinflammation during the progression of Parkinson’s disease both in cellular and animal models as well as in biofluids and post-mortem tissues obtained from Parkinson’s patients. Such studies are expected to provide new platforms from which to discover, monitor and evaluate diagnostic indicators and therapeutic targets.