Dr. Sharon L. Juliano is a Professor at USU. Dr. Juliano received her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the UNC, Chapel Hill. She completed a Senior Fellowship in France. At USU, Dr Juliano served as president of the USU faculty senate, Director of the Neuroscience Program, and teaches medical and graduate students. She is active in the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), and organizes international workshops.. She currently coordinates a Workshop in neuroscience teaching for young African neuroscientists.
Dr. Juliano received the Flexnor Award for Outstanding Research, the Cajal Club Cortical Explorer Award, the Simpson Award (iiFAR), the Distinguished Service Medal (US Govt), the Wu Award for Excellence in Research, the SfN Award for Education in Neuroscience, and the Outstanding Service Medal. She was also the chair of SfN and IBRO committees and sits on editorial boards, advisory committees and study sections. She also is involved with the board for Women in Neuroscience in Nigeria and the advisory board of the Society for Neuroscience in Africa (SONA) and BioRTC; she was inducted into the SONA Hall of Fame.
Her scientific work centers on the effects of blast and associated injuries on the ferret and human brain. The ferret is an excellent model to use for brain injury study as it possesses a gyrencephalic cortex, which demonstrates changes in the expression of tau and its isoforms after traumatic brain injury, as well as high level behavioral changes