Anthony van den Pol, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Anthony van den Pol is a Professor of Neurosurgery. After completing his graduate education at Yale University, Dr. van den Pol did postdoctoral work at Oxford, Semmelweis, and Stanford Universities in the areas of neuropharmacology, neuroanatomy, and neurophysiology. Dr. van den Pol has two overlapping research interests, related to basic cellular mechanisms and approaches to understanding the normal and diseased brain, and the treatment of brain disorders.   One   focus is on the organization and mechanisms of action of hypothalamic peptides and amino acid transmitters, using a combination of patch clamp electrophysiology, ultrastructural cytochemistry, digital imaging, and molecular biology. The other interest is in neurovirology, including how viruses alter normal function in the developing and mature brain, and the use of viral vectors to study normal brain or treat the diseased brain, or utilization of replication-competent oncolytic viruses to treat brain cancer. Dr. van den Pol's research is supported by the National Institute of Health.

Education

Undergraduate	B.A.   Occidental College
Graduate	M.S.   Yale University M.Phil.   Yale University Ph.D.  Yale University
Postdoctoral and Sabbatical	Oxford University, Department of Pharmacology, Oxford, U.K. Semmelweis University, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Budapest, Hungary Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences

General Interests

Hypothalamus (neuroendocrinology, neural control of energy homeostasis, neuropeptide modulation of amino acid transmitter actions,   hypocretin/orexin and MCH neurons), Neurovirology, viral vectors and oncolytic viruses

Curriculum Vitae and Links

• Download CV
• van den Pol Lab (research interests, people, publications, protocols, images)

Internal and Mailing Contact
Campus Address	333 Cedar Street Tompkins East (TE), Room 414 New Haven, CT 06510
US Mailing Address	Department of Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine P.O. Box 208082 New Haven, CT 06520-8082
E-mail	anthony.vandenpol@yale.edu
Office Phone	(203) 785-5823
Express/overnight mail address	Department of Neurosurgery Farnum Memorial Building (FMB), Room 421 333 Cedar Street New Haven, CT 06520