Phiroz Tarapore MD

 

Expected Graduation Date: 2013

Education, Training, and Previous Positions

2002: BS, Stanford University
2007: MD, University of California, San Francisco

Selected Honors and Awards

2006: Genentech Foundation Research Fellowship, UCSF
2005-2006: Dean's Office Medical Student Research Program Grant, UCSF
2004-2005: Nelson's Fellowship Scholarship, UCSF
2002-2003: Ambassador's Grant for Curiculum Improvement, UCSF
2002: Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University
2000-2002: Howard Hughes Major Grant for the Biological Sciences
1998: Regents Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Recent Publications

Sanai N, Tarapore P, Lee AC, Lawton MT. The current role of microsurgery for posterior circulation aneurysms: a selective approach in the endovascular era. Neurosurgery 2008;62(6):1236-53.
 
Shefi S, Tarapore PE, Walsh TJ, Croughan M, Turek PJ. Wet heat exposure: a potentially reversible cause of low semen quality in infertile men. Int Braz J Urol 2007;33(1):50-7.
 
Dumas TC, Powers EC, Tarapore PE, Sapolsky RM. Overexpression of calbindin D(28k) in dentate gyrus granule cells alters mossy fiber presynaptic function and impairs hippocampal-dependent memory. Hippocampus 2004;14(6):701-9.
 
Lee AL, Dumas TC, Tarapore PE, Webster BR, Ho DY, Kaufer D, Sapolsky RM. Potassium channel gene therapy can prevent neuron death resulting from necrotic and apoptotic insults. J Neurochem 2003;86(5):1079-88.