Cara Altimus

Director, Neuroscience

Cara Altimus is a qualified professional, who works in Center For Strategic Philanthropy Milken Institute as a Director, Neuroscience from 2019. This person gained professional experience in more than six positions at different companies. Cara Altimus went to the The Johns Hopkins University and received education there from 2005 to 2010. Bethesda, Maryland is the area, where this professional was lastly known to be living. The professional's email address and phone can be easily accessed through this website by request.
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Cara Altimus
Last updated Jul 05, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jul 4, 2022
Email
ca**@gmail.com
Location
Bethesda, MD
Company
Center For Strategic Philanthropy Milken Institute

Workplace

Work History

Director, Neuroscience

from Jan 2019

Neuroscientist

Fda
10903 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20903
Leading research program for cortical prosthetic safety and efficacy in the Neural Interfaces Laboratory within the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (CDRH) and participating in...
Jul 2016 — May 2017

Aaas Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Facilitated the development of the first institute-wide Safety, Health and Wellness Strategic Research Plan Developed an outreach strategy for upcoming Real-Time Crime Forecasting Data Cha...
Sep 2015 — Jul 2016

Postdoc

Studied learning and memory in mouse models of psychiatric disease to understand how changes in neural properties alter neural function by recording from large populations of neurons while t...
Oct 1, 2010 — Aug 2015

Graduate Student

3400 north Charles Street Ave, Baltimore, MD 21204
Uncovered retinal circuitry for circadian photoreception by using mouse photoreceptor mutants. Further, we used these mouse mutants to uncover the neural pathway through which light influenc...
Jul 2005 — Sep 2010

Technician

2004 — 2005

Occupations

Executive
Director
Scientist
Neuroscientist
Operations Manager
Medical Research Scientist
Medical Scientist

Skills

In Vivo Electrophysiology
Mouse Genetics
Data Analysis
Animal Behavior
Learning and Memory
Transgenic Mice
Immunohistochemistry
Mouse Models
Cell Culture
Fluorescence Microscopy
Transfection
Molecular Cloning
Animal Models
Microscopy
Biochemistry
Immunofluorescence
Confocal Microscopy
Cell Biology
Western Blotting
Pcr
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