About Crish Lab
Located in the heart of it all.
The C.Crish Lab is a biomedical neuroscience research laboratory located at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, Ohio, which is 15 minutes from downtown Akron and 1 hour south of Cleveland. NEOMED has partnerships with Kent State University, University of Akron, Youngstown State, Cleveland State, Bowling Green State, Baldwin Wallace, and Hiram universities as well as numerous hospital systems throughout the region.
A collaborative environment.
The C.Crish Lab is housed in the state-of-the-art Research and Graduate Education (RGE) Building at NEOMED. We are affiliated with the College of Pharmacy and are part of a university-wide initiative focused on developing excellence in research in Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging. This arrangement enables resource sharing and cross-discipline collaboration with a wide range of scientists including chemists, toxicologists, anatomists, electrophysiologists, and translational researchers.
Training and supporting the next generation of disease researchers.
Our research staff and trainees are talented, dynamic, critical-thinkers that come from a wide range of scientific backgrounds. This gives us an advantage in generating innovative ideas and establishing powerful new techniques.
The C.Crish lab respects the qualities that diversity brings to our environment via race, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability status. We know that marginalized and disadvantaged groups face unique challenges in science. The C.Crish Lab’s goal is to help our trainees meet those challenges by providing a research environment inclusive and supportive to everyone.
Classic neurobiological approaches and cutting edge technology.
The C.Crish Lab combines classic neuroanatomical, neuropharmacological, and comparative approaches with innovative new technology to investigate mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. Some of the methods we use include neuronal tract tracing, immunofluorescence, epifluorescent wide-field and confocal microscopy, advanced protein quantification techniques, and high-throughput bone densitometry.
Innovative models.
The C.Crish Lab maintains a variety of transgenic tauopathy, Alzheimer’s and glaucoma rodent models. We are also one of the few labs in the U.S. that successfully houses and breeds naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber), a rodent species which holds the record for greatest longevity and healthy aging.
