Vladimir Parpura

Vladimir Parpura (born December 5, 1964) is a Croatian-American neurobiologist who is currently a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education Parpura was born was born December 5, 1964, in Split, Croatia. Following compulsory military service, he earned his M.D. at University of Zagreb in 1989, and later was awarded a doctorate in neurology and zoology at Iowa State University in 1993. Career and research He taught at Iowa State University, and then in 2000 took a teaching position at University of California, Riverside. In July 2007, he accepted a position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012 and of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives in 2016. at 1662 times, according to Google Scholar.

Selected publications Vladimir Parpura, Trent A Basarsky, Fang Liu, Ksenija Jeftinija, Srdija Jeftinija, Philip G Haydon. Glutamate-mediated astrocyte–neuron signalling. 369:6483. 744–747. Nature. 1994. Hui Hu, Yingchun Ni, Vedrana Montana, Robert C Haddon, Vladimir Parpura. Chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes as substrates for neuronal growth. 4:3. 507–511. Nano letters. 2004. Vladimir Parpura, Philip G Haydon. Physiological astrocytic calcium levels stimulate glutamate release to modulate adjacent neurons. 97:15. 8629–8634. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2000. Alfonso Araque, Vladimir Parpura, Rita P Sanzgiri, Philip G Haydon. Glutamate‐dependent astrocyte modulation of synaptic transmission between cultured hippocampal neurons. 10:6. 2129:2142. European Journal of Neuroscience. 1998

Awards Parpura received the Nikola Tesla Award from the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1988 and the Research Excellence Award from the Iowa State University in 1993.