Publications & Awards

Current & Past Grant Funding

• NIH R01: "IGF-1 and Innate Immunity in Neonatal Brain Injury"
• NIH K08: “Reversing Inflammatory Macrophage Activation as Treatment for Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage"
• Mission Connect Founders Research Award: “Modeling Neuroinflammation of White Matter Injury after Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage”
• The Brain Aneurysm Foundation's Karen M. Schurr Memorial Chair of Research Award
• CCTS Early Career Pilot Program: “Macrophage Phenotyping and White Matter Injury in Preterm Intraventricular Hemorrhage”
• CCTS KL2 Career Development Grant: "Reducing Pathological Macrophage Activation and White Matter Injury in Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage”
• Hydrocephalus Association Innovator Award: “Antioxidant Therapy in Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus”
• SCTR Early Career Development Award: "Reducing Pathological Inflammation after Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage”
• University of Kentucky Neuroscience Research Priority Area Award

Selected Publications

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• Azithromycin reduces hemoglobin-induced innate neuroimmune activation
  Chirayu D Pandya, Hemendra J Vekaria, Miriam Zamorano, Amanda L Trout, Rodney M Ritzel, Gary U Guzman, Christopher Bolden, Patrick G Sullivan, John C Gensel, Brandon A Miller
• Innate immune activation and white matter injury in a rat model of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage are dependent on developmental stage
  Miriam Zamorano, Scott D Olson, Candice Haase, Juan J Herrera, Shuning Huang, David J Sequeira, Charles S Cox Jr, Brandon A Miller
• Modeling Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage through Intraventricular Injection of Hemoglobin
  Brandon A Miller, Shelei Pan, Peter H Yang, Catherine Wang, Amanda L Trout, Dakota DeFreitas, Sruthi Ramagiri, Scott D Olson, Jennifer M Strahle
• Hemoglobin induces oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in oligodendrocyte progenitor cells
  Chirayu D Pandya, Hemendra Vekaria, Binoy Joseph, Stacey A Slone, John C Gensel, Patrick G Sullivan, Brandon A Miller
• Acute brain inflammation, white matter oxidative stress, and myelin deficiency in a model of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage
  Danielle S Goulding, R Caleb Vogel, John C Gensel, Josh M Morganti, Arnold J Stromberg, Brandon A Miller
• A lumbar arteriovenous fistula presenting with intraventricular hemorrhage and hydrocephalus
  Brandon A Miller, Robert Christopher Spears, Thomas K Hines, Abdulnasser Alhajeri, Justin F Fraser
• Neonatal hydrocephalus leads to white matter neuroinflammation and injury in the corpus callosum of Ccdc39 hydrocephalic mice
  Danielle S Goulding, R Caleb Vogel, Chirayu D Pandya, Crystal Shula, John C Gensel, Francesco T Mangano, June Goto, Brandon A Miller
• Effect of Progesterone on Cerebral Vasospasm and Neurobehavioral Outcomes in a Rodent Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  Nefize Turan, Brandon A Miller, J Russell Huie, Robert A Heider, Jun Wang, Bushra Wali, Seema Yousuf, Adam R Ferguson, Iqbal Sayeed, Donald G Stein, Gustavo Pradilla
• Neurobehavioral testing in subarachnoid hemorrhage: A review of methods and current findings in rodents
  Nefize Turan, Brandon A Miller, Robert A Heider, Maheen Nadeem, Iqbal Sayeed, Donald G Stein, Gustavo Pradilla
• CNS Plasticity in Injury and Disease
  Brandon A Miller, John C Gensel, Michael S Beattie
• Inflammation, vasospasm, and brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage
  Brandon A Miller, Nefize Turan, Monica Chau, Gustavo Pradilla
• Developmental stage of oligodendrocytes determines their response to activated microglia in vitro
  Brandon A Miller, Jeannine M Crum, C Amy Tovar, Adam R Ferguson, Jacqueline C Bresnahan, Michael S Beattie
• A sublethal dose of TNFalpha potentiates kainate-induced excitotoxicity in optic nerve oligodendrocytes
  Brandon A Miller, Fang Sun, Randolph N Christensen, Adam R Ferguson, Jacqueline C Bresnahan, Michael S Beattie