Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Bolanle Famakin is an Assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. She completed her internship in preliminary medicine and neurology residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. She then completed a clinical fellowship in cerebrovascular diseases and stroke at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA, and a subsequent bench research fellowship at the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD. 

Dr. Famakin’s research is focused on understanding the cellular mechanisms underlying innate immune activation during acute stroke. She uses rodent models of experimental cerebral ischemia to study innate immune pathways activated during cerebral ischemia.