Kang Lab

Research features:

• Pathophysiology of cerebral small vessel diseases (sporadic and genetic)
• Cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism
• Ischemic vulnerability in the healthy and injured brain
• Imaging of neuroinflammation and blood-brain barrier leakage in small vessel disease
• Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
• Interaction between critical illness and cognitive decline
• Watershed Infarction
• Neurocritical care clinical outcomes and clinical trials
• Quality improvement in neurocritical care
• Diagnostic reasoning and undergraduate and graduate medical education

Principal investigator

Peter Kang, MD, MSCI

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Neurology Residency Program Director

Medical school: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Residency: Washington University Neurology Residency Fellowship: Washington University Neurocritical Care

Publications

• Neuroinflammation and amyloid deposition in the progression of mixed Alzheimer and vascular dementia
  January 1, 2023
  Neuroinflammation and amyloid deposition in the progression of mixed Alzheimer and vascular dementiaYing, C., Kang, P., Binkley, M. M., Ford, A., Chen, Y., Hassenstab, J., Wang, Q., Strain, J., Morris, J., Lee, J-M., Benzinger, T. & An, H., Jan 2023, In: NeuroImage: Clinical. 38, 103373.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Oxygen Metabolic Stress and White Matter Injury in Patients with Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
  May 1, 2022
  Oxygen Metabolic Stress and White Matter Injury in Patients with Cerebral Small Vessel DiseaseKang, P., Ying, C., Chen, Y., Ford, A., An, H. & Lee, J-M., May 1 2022, In: Stroke. 53, 5, p. 1570-1579 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Lesion evolution and neurodegeneration in RVCL-S: A monogenic microvasculopathy
  October 6, 2020
  Lesion evolution and neurodegeneration in RVCL-S: A monogenic microvasculopathyFord, A. L., Chin, V. W., Fellah, S., Binkley, M. M., Bodin, A. M., Balasetti, V., Taiwo, Y., Kang, P., Lin, D., Jen, J. C., Grand, M. G., Bogacki, M., Liszewski, M. K., Hourcade, D., Chen, Y., Hassenstab, J., Lee, J. M., An, H., Miner, J. J. & Atkinson, J. P., Oct 6 2020, In: Neurology. 95, 14, p. E1918-E1931Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Autoimmune Encephalitis with Multiple Autoantibodies: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge
  January 1, 2018
  Autoimmune Encephalitis with Multiple Autoantibodies: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic ChallengeKim, A. E., Kang, P., Bucelli, R. C., Ferguson, C. J., Schmidt, R. E., Varadhachary, A. S. & Day, G. S., 2018, In: Neurologist. 23, 2, p. 55-59 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• A 42-Year-Old Man with AIDS and Multiple Incomplete Ring Enhancing Lesions
  September 1, 2017
  A 42-Year-Old Man with AIDS and Multiple Incomplete Ring Enhancing LesionsKang, P., Schmidt, R. E., Dahiya, S. & Varadhachary, A. S., Sep 2017, In: Brain Pathology. 27, 5, p. 697-698 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review