James Madison University, B.A. 1991
Virginia Commonwealth University, M.S. 1998
Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph.D. 2000
University of California, Davis Post-doc 2001-2004
Faculty Positions:
2004- 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Davis.
2006- 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
2012-current Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Candace L. Floyd, Ph.D., received her M.S. from Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University in 1998 where she studied traumatic brain injury using in vivo rodent models under the tutelage of Bruce G. Lyeth, Ph.D. She received her Ph.D. from the same institution in 2000, under the mentorship of Earl Ellis, Ph.D., and focused her research on in vitro mechanical strain injury in astrocytes. She conducted her post-doctoral training in traumatic CNS injury at the University of California, Davis from 2001-2004. In 2004, she became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, Davis. In 2006, she moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she joined the Center for Glial Biology in Medicine and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The central focus of her research is to understand glial-neuronal interactions in traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Recent work from the Floyd laboratory evaluates the protective actions of 17b-estradiol in traumatic CNS injury. Other work evaluates bioengineering approaches to regeneration and repair. The Floyd lab also investigates glial-neuronal interactions in neuropathic pain after CNS injury. She has served as an invited instructor in the Reeve-Irvine Spinal Cord Injury Techniques Course, as an ad-hoc member of NIH study sections, and has also reviewed grant applications for the Department of Defense and the Veteran's Administration. She frequently reviews manuscripts for several neuroscience journals, including the Journal of Neurotrauma and is an active member of the National Neurotrauma Society.
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