Executive Director, Texas Biomedical Device Center
University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Michael Kilgard is one of the world’s leading scientists in the study of neural plasticity. The Margaret Fonde Jonsson Professor and inventor of Targeted Plasticity Therapy (TPT) has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and overseen the design of nine clinical trials using TPT for tinnitus, PTSD and stroke.
Kilgard received a bachelor’s degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993 and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1998. His research at UCSF was focused on understanding and directing neuroplasticity within the auditory system. He began teaching at UT Dallas in 1999 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2011.
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