Lab Mission

Our Mission

The mission of the Iliff Lab is to fundamentally change the way that traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative conditions are prevented and treated in the next 10 years.

Our Means

To accomplish these goals, we will focus on building a greater understanding of how TBI, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and other related conditions appear ‘in the wild’ in the human brain, and of their underlying mechanisms defined in animal models.

We will focus on our most precious resources:

1.     Excellent people

2.     Sustainable, diversified funding

3.     Strategic collaborative relationships

4.     Appropriate use of advanced cellular and imaging approaches

Our Mode

We will think hard. We believe in rigorous characterization, careful attention to spatial and anatomical relationships, and a care for reproducibility.  

We will think different. We believe that many of the things that we “know” may not be true in fact. We believe in a humble, self-critical approach to our own observations, and especially interpretations.

We will think together. We believe that many perspectives are needed to solve complex problems, and that colleagues must trust each other to take intellectual risks. We will do the work to build that culture of trust.