SPOKANE, Wash. Neuroscientist James Krueger has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, the scientific organization established to offer advice on science policy in the state.
Krueger is now one of 184 active academy members, and is the first member from Spokane. He will join 35 other scientists from around the stateincluding four from WSU Pullmanfor the induction at the academy’s fifth annual meeting next month in Seattle.
Krueger is a Regents Professor in the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center and the WWAMI medical education program. His research interests include the biochemical regulation of sleep, the interaction between sleep and infectious disease, and how the brain is organized to produce sleep.
In 2010, he discovered the biochemical mechanism by which the brain switches from a wakeful to a sleeping state, which was mentioned in Discover Magazine as one of the top 100 stories for the year. The finding supports the view developed by Krueger and his colleagues that sleep is a “local” phenomenoni.e., parts of the brain sleep while others remain in a waking state.
Krueger has a prolific publication record that includes more than 350 peer-reviewed papers. He has been with Washington State University since 1997 and was previously on the faculty at the University of Tennessee and Harvard Medical School. Krueger holds a PhD in physiology from the University of Pennsylvania and an honorary MD degree from the University of Szeged in Hungary.
About WSU Spokane
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Aug. 1, 2012 “Five WSU Faculty Members Named to State Academy of Science”
Dec. 16, 2010 – “#32: Sleep Switch Found in the Brain”
Sept. 14, 2010 – “Researchers Discover Chemical Sleep Mechanism”
Aug. 1, 2012 “Five WSU Faculty Members Named to State Academy of Science”
Dec. 16, 2010 – “#32: Sleep Switch Found in the Brain”
Sept. 14, 2010 – “Researchers Discover Chemical Sleep Mechanism”