Douglas Feinstein, PhD

Doug Feinstein is Research Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UIC. He also is a Research Biologist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center across the street. He's been doing research on neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases throughout his career. He received degrees from MIT and Johns Hopkins University, did post doc training in Sweden, Switzerland, and France, then took a position in Neuroscience with Don Reis at Cornell University Medical College in Manhattan. He moved to UIC in 1999. He's been continuously funded by Federal, Pharma, and non-for-profit societies, and published about 160 papers. He is Associate or Handling Editor on several journals, serves on review panels for NIH, the VA, the NMSS and the Alzheimer’s Association. He was President of the American Society for Neurochemistry, and still hangs out at annual meetings. He's a better than mediocre guitarist, and a devoted chess addict (FICA 1500).