Clocks & Rhythms with Clifford Saper interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Clifford B. Saper received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and did his internship in internal medicine at Washington... » More

Clifford B. Saper received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees and did his internship in internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, before doing a neurology residency at Cornell University Medical Center- New York Hospital. He then joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine where he served from 1981-1985 as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Neurology and Anatomy and Neurobiology. He then moved to the University of Chicago, where from 1985-1992 he was an Associate Professor, then William D. Mabie Professor of Physiology and Neurology, and Chairman of the Committee on Neurobiology. In 1992, he moved to his present position at Harvard Medical School, where he is the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Chairman of the Harvard Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Saper also has served since 1994 as the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the oldest basic neuroscience journal in the English language. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Physiological Genomics,, and NeuroImmunoModulation. Dr. Saper has received a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health, and was named one of the 100 most frequently cited neuroscientists by the Institute for Scientific Information. He has served as Vice President and Councilor of the American Neurological Association, and on the Program and Publications Committees of both that organization and the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Saper has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal College of Physicians (London).

Dr. Saper’s research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake-sleep cycles, brain responses to immune stimulation, and the brain’s control of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
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