Mark P. Burns, PhD

Mark P. Burns, PhD

Professor

Mark Burns, PhD is a Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University. He established his laboratory in 2009, and has been privileged to work with an outstanding group of young, energetic, motivated, and inspirational scientists since his first day on the job. 

Mark earned his PhD studying models of depression at the University of Galway, Ireland under the mentorship of Prof. Brian Leonard. As a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Karen Duff at the Nathan Kline Institute and New York University, he studied mechanisms of amyloid and tau accumulation in animal models Alzheimer's disease. At Georgetown University, Mark worked with Prof. Bill Rebeck to study apoE in Alzheimer's disease. 

Mark teaches Neuroscience and Neuroanatomy at Georgetown University Medical School and Graduate School. He has served on grant review study sections for the NIH, DoD and VA, and reviews for many different scientific journals. He is the Chief Editor for the Neurodegeneration section of Frontiers in Neuroscience, and is co-founder of the National Capital Area Neurotrauma Society.

Mark lives with his family close to the Potomac river, and is a whitewater kayaker who loves doing dumb things in kayaks.