The productivity of Distinguished Professor Michael Chopp, of the Department of Physics, is breathtaking. Chopp, whose laboratory is located at Henry Ford Hospital, leads a large team of researchers including several graduate students in the Biomedical Sciences: Medical Physics PhD program. To get an idea of how much quality biomedical research comes out of Chopp’s lab, I list below his publications from the last month. That is not a typo: Chopp publishes about one paper per week.

• Cui X, Chopp M, Zacharek A, Roberts C, Lu M, Savant-Bhonsale S, Chen JL. 2009. “Chemokine, Vascular and Therapeutic Effects of Combination Simvastatin and BMSC Treatment of Stroke.” Neurobiology of Disease, Volume 36, Pages 35-41.
• Santra M, Zheng XG, Roberts C, Santra S, Lu M, Panda S, Jiang F, Chopp M.  2010.  “Single Doublecortin Gene Therapy Significantly Reduces Glioma Tumor Volume.”  Journal of Neuroscience Research, Volume 88, Pages 304-314.
• Chen JL, Zacharek A, Cui X, Shehadah A, Jiang H, Roberts C, Lu M, Chopp M.  2010.  “Treatment of Stroke With a Synthetic Liver X Receptor Agonist, TO901317, Promotes Synaptic Plasticity and Axonal Regeneration in Mice.” Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Volume 30, Pages 102-109.
• Jiang H, Shang X, Wu HT, Huang G, Wang YY, Al-Holou S, Gautam SC, Chopp M.  2010.  “Combination Treatment With Resveratrol and Sulforaphane Induces Apoptosis in Human U251 Glioma Cells.” Neurochemical Research, Volume 35, Pages 152-161.