Olimpia Meucci

Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD is a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Meucci actively contributes to the scientific and academic missions of the College's graduate and medical schools. Her interdisciplinary research projects support students from different programs training in her laboratory, and she leads a variety of interdisciplinary and translational research efforts. A prime example is the TRaCES initiative (Translational Research and Core Expert Support), which helps scientists and clinicians collaborate on translational research projects.

Dr. Meucci holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, in which she served as co-director of the Temple/Drexel/UPenn training grant “Interdisciplinary and Translational Research Training in NeuroAIDS” (NIH-MH079785). She also directs the Center of Neuroimmunology and CNS Therapeutics, which is part of the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases (IMMID).