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Boston University Names Seven Junior Faculty Career Development Professors

Travis Rotterman, a Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine assistant professor of pharmacology, physiology, and biophysics, has been named one of this year’s Boston University Career Development Professors—“talented junior educators emerging as future leaders within their respective fields.” Most of the recipients’ research involves artificial intelligence; all study how digital technology affects our lives or the physical universe we inhabit.

Rotterdam is the recipient of Ralph Edwards Career Development Professorship, endowed by the estate of Ralph Edwards (CAMED’52). He uses cutting-edge genetic and other methods to study the implications of neurological damage for sensory and motor functions. “His innovative work using models of nerve and spinal cord injury has provided critical insights into the complex circuitry underlying motor adaptations,” writes Hee-Young Park, dean ad interim and associate dean for faculty affairs. Among Rotterman’s other findings are those that “provide an important cautionary note on potential critical differences between restoring/retaining anatomical connectivity after neurological injury and behavioral recovery of function,” Park says.

Learn more about all of the Career Development Professors in this BU Today story.