NVITe, or Neurovascular Inflammation Team, is a newly established laboratory at Stony Brook University focusing on translational stroke, inflammation, physiology and behavior. We seek to understand relationships between various components of innate immunity and cerebrovascular dynamics in both preclinical and clinical stroke.

The lab, located at the Basic Sciences Tower (BST) 6-160 in a shared space between Neurology and Physiology, incorporates animal surgery, live-animal imaging, advanced histopathology, light-sheet microscopy, flow cytometry and animal behavior metrics. We also are building capabilities for single-cell RNA sequencing, methylation and spatial transcriptomics. NVITe collaborates with multiple departments at Stony Brook including Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosurgery, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology.  We have been funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Heart Association (AHA), the Stony Brook Center for Healthy Aging (CHA), the Feldstein Medical Foundation, the Office of the Vice President for Research Seed Grant and the Stony Brook University Research Foundation.

NVITe also works in partnership with other institutions, including Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis and UT Houston. Eventually, we hope to apply our findings to improving outcomes in stroke as well as other cerebrovascular diseases of the central nervous system.

For the latest updates on the lab's ability to sponsor interested applicants, visit our "Meet the Team" page. 

We are happy to discuss opportunities. If you are interested in a position, please contact neil.nadkarni@stonybrookmedicine.edu.