Student MD/PhD program, Graduate student trainee, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

John Hammond received his BS from Lafayette College in Behavioral Neuroscience in 2003. Following graduation, he worked for Dr. Harry Quigley at Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Working as a laboratory technician, John studied intraocular pressure changes and optical nerve damage in a rat model of glaucoma.

John came to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in July of 2005 to begin working toward his MD/PhD as part of the MSTP program. After completing his first two years of coursework, John joined Dr. Meador-Woodruff's lab working under Dr. McCullumsmith. For his graduate thesis work, John studies AMPA receptor trafficking in endosomes. He has developed a modified immunoisolation technique that allows for extraction of intact endosomes and their contents from post-mortem human tissue. John is using this technique to better understand part of the underlying pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

E-Mail: jchammond@uasom.uab.edu