Robert Meller, D.Phil. BSc

Robert Meller, D.Phil. BSc 

Interim Director of the Neuroscience Institute/ Professor of Neurobiology/ Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Neurobiology

Location: Multidisciplinary Research Center F220/ F221
Phone: (404) 756-5789
E-mail: rmeller@msm.edu

Education

GRADUATE:
University of Oxford (Keble College)
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Neuropharmacology

UNDERGRADUATE:
University of Bristol
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology

Research Interests

Stroke, epilepsy and other neurological condition biomarkers.  Space Bioogy, microRNA biology, and AI-mediated drug miRNA interactions.

Clinical Interests

Stroke, epilepsy, seizures, neuology.

Publications

Bullinger K, Dhakar M, Pearson A, Bumanglag A, Guven E, Verma R, Amini E, Sloviter RS, DeBruyne J, Simon RP, Meller R. Retrospective discrimination of PNES and epileptic seizure types using blood RNA signatures. J Neurol. 2025 Jan 15;272(2):128. doi: 10.1007/s00415-024-12877-1. PubMed PMID: 39812831; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11735489.

Galeano D, Imrat, Haltom J, Andolino C, Yousey A, Zaksas V, Das S, Baylin SB, Wallace DC, Slack FJ, Enguita FJ, Wurtele ES, Teegarden D, Meller R, Cifuentes D, Beheshti A. sChemNET: a deep learning framework for predicting small molecules targeting microRNA function. Commun. 2024 Oct 23;15(1):9149. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49813-w. PubMed PMID: 39443444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11500171.

McDonald JT, Kim J, Farmerie L, Johnson ML, Trovao NS, Arif S, Siew K, Tsoy S, Bram Y, Park J, Overbey E, Ryon K, Haltom J, Singh U, Enguita FJ, Zaksas V, Guarnieri JW, Topper M, Wallace DC, Meydan C, Baylin S, Meller R, Muratani M, Porterfield DM, Kaufman B, Mori MA, Walsh SB, Sigaudo-Roussel D, Mebarek S, Bottini M, Marquette CA, Wurtele ES, Schwartz RE, Galeano D, Mason CE, Grabham P, Beheshti A. Space radiation damage rescued by inhibition of key spaceflight associated miRNAs. Nat Commun. 2024 Jun 11;15(1):4825. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48920-y. PubMed PMID: 38862542; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11166944.

Genomic data in the All of Us Research Program. Nature. 2024 Mar;627(8003):340-346. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06957-x. Epub 2024 Feb 19. PubMed PMID: 38374255; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10937371

Meller R., Pearson A. N., Hardy J. J., Hall C. L., McGuire D., Frankel M. R. and Roger P. Simon Blood transcriptome changes after stroke in an African American population. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 2016.

Complete List: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/robert.meller.1/bibliography/public/

Honors and Awards

  • 2005: Membership of the Society for Neuroscience
  • 1998-1994: Wellcome Prize Studentship