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Ralph Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
712-707-7006
redavis@nwciowa.edu
A leading expert on nematode neurobiology, Dr. Davis spent 20 years as a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to teach and do research at Northwestern College. His research in the area of neuropharmacology helps lead to new or better drugs that combat parasites in developing countries. In 2001, Davis was awarded a multi-year, $570,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his research at Northwestern with the help of student researchers. In 2006 the NIH continued funding his research with another three-year grant worth nearly $200,000. Since receiving the grants, Davis has trained a number of undergraduate research students in his lab. Most have gone on to medical school or graduate school in biochemistry and physiology.
Davis received a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did postdoctoral research at UW-Madison and at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) School of Medicine in Physiology. He teaches human anatomy, histology, neuroscience, bioethics and developmental biology and is the director of Northwestern’s new Neuroscience and Persons (NAPs) program.
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