Rate My Professor Bonnie Blazer-Yost

Blazer-Yost directs the Hydrocephalus Research Center at IUPUI, where her laboratory develops pharmaceutical treatments for hydrocephalus by targeting cerebrospinal fluid production, neuroinflammation, and neuronal cell protection in genetic, post-hemorrhagic, post-traumatic, and other preclinical models using rodents and pigs. She serves as corresponding principal investigator on two Department of Defense grants—a Focused Program Award and an Expansion Award—totaling $11.7 million, collaborating with co-investigators from Indiana University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Purdue University. A Fellow of the American Physiological Society, she has produced over 140 research works documented on ResearchGate with approximately 2,447 citations. Key publications include "Characterization of TRPV4-mediated signaling pathways in choroid plexus epithelium" (Hulme et al., American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 2022), "Channels and Transporters in Astrocyte Volume Regulation in Situations of Ischemia" (Reed et al., International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022), and "Hydrocephalus in a rat model of Meckel Gruber syndrome with disruption of ciliary gene Tmem67" (Shim et al., Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2019). Her contributions advance non-surgical options for treating hydrocephalus.