Our Team

Brett R. Schofield, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor

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Dr. Schofield heads the Schofield Lab. In addition to being a principal investigator, he teaches Medical Neuroscience to medical and graduate students at NEOMED. He has over 40 years’ experience using tract-tracing and immunohistochemical techniques to investigate the neuroanatomy and neuromodulation of the auditory brain.

Email: bschofie@neomed.edu

Molly Enrick

Lab Manager

Ms. Enrick oversees laboratory operations as well as providing technical assistance with tract-tracing surgery, mouse colony management, and electron microscopy.  She previously worked for 14 years in the Chilian/Yin lab at NEOMED, researching microvascular dysfunction and coronary collateral growth in heart disease.

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Michael C. Kelly, M.S.

Research Associate

Mr. Kelly provides technical assistance for the Schofield lab, including cutting and staining of brain tissue and management of supplies and equipment.

Dayanara B. Lohr

PhD Student

Mrs. Lohr is a graduate student in the Kent State Biomedical Neuroscience Ph. D program. As a new member of the lab, she is currently developing her thesis topic. She aims to apply her interests in immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization, and transgenic mouse lines to future projects in characterizing cholinergic neuronal populations.

Rebecca DiScipio

PhD Student

Ms. DiScipio is a graduate student in the NEOMED Basic and Translational Biomedicine Ph. D program. As a new member of the lab, she is aiding with various projects, learning more specifically with viral tract-tracing, transgenic mouse lines, and electron microscopy. She looks forward to learning more of synaptic connections in subtypes of acetylcholinergic cells in the auditory system.  

Palki Gupta

Medical Student: NEOMED class of 2029

Ms. Gupta is a UH-NEOMED Hearing Research Fellow in the 2026 Summer Research Fellowship Program. She is using fluorescence microscopy to investigate neural pathways associated with hearing, with a focus on the Inferior Colliculus and neurons in the midbrain that use neuropeptide Y as a neuromodulator. She is interested in surgical specialties but is still exploring what surgical specialty she will pursue.