Miller Laboratory Research Team

Meet Our Research Team

Dr. Brandon A. Miller is Associate Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Medical University of South Carolina. His undergraduate research was focused on cerebral ischemia and preconditioning in the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Gidday and Dr. T.S. Park at Washington University in St. Louis. He obtained his MD and PhD at The Ohio State University where we worked with Dr. Jacqueline Bresnahan and Dr. Michael Beattie studying white matter injury in the context of spinal cord injury. During his residency at Emory University, Dr. Miller received an NIH fellowship to study inflammation after subarachnoid hemorrhage and then returned to Washington University for his pediatric neurosurgery fellowship where he developed an interest in intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and hydrocephalus. Dr. Miller’s independent research career has focused on the microglial response to IVH, and strategies to modify microglial activation state to improve IVH outcomes. Dr. Miller takes great pride in supporting the career development of students and junior faculty members.

Dr. Miriam Zamorano earned her PhD degree at the Neurobiology Research Institute of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She has been working alongside Dr. Miller creating models of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) to test treatments for neonatal brain injury. Dr. Zamorano's research is focused on investigating the cellular components that underlie the inflammatory process after IVH and how brain circuity is affected by IVH.