Dr. Barclay Morrison, III earned a BS (1992) in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for an MSE (1994) and PhD (1999) in Bioengineering.  After a year as a post-doctoral fellow in traumatic brain injury at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Morrison spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom; one year in head injury/ischemia and one in traumatic brain injury.  He returned to the US in 2003 to take an assistant professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Among his numerous honors, Dr. Morrison was awarded the Richard Skalak Best Paper Award in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineeringfor 2000, and the John Paul Stapp Best Paper Award in the Stapp Car Crash Journal for 2003.  He has published nearly a dozen full-length manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, and nearly two dozen abstracts; he is an ad hoc reviewer for the Ann.Biomed.Eng., J.Biomech.,J. Neurotrauma, and the J.Biomech.Eng.

Dr. Morrison’s funded research has involved development of a clinically relevant in vitro model of traumatic brain injury to replace in vivo models, and the establishment of a clinically relevant model of shear injury in organotypic brain slice cultures with the ultimate goal of studying the functional consequences of traumatic brain injury.  He is Principal Investigator of a project in the SCIB Research Domain for head and brain injury, seeking to produce direct experimental data that will provide additional tolerance criteria for viable, in vitro brain tissue, looking specifically at cell death and dysfunction.