Faculty

John Charles O'Donnell, BA, MS, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Department: Neurosurgery

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

3900 Woodland Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Publications

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Education:
BA (Biology, Philosophy Minor)
LaSalle University, 2004.
MS (Biology)
Towson University, 2009.
PhD (Neuropharmacology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2016.

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Description of Research Expertise

Traumatic Brain Injury; Disorders of Consciousness; Neurotrauma Rehabilitation and Recovery; Neuroregenerative Medicine; Neurotherapeutics Development; Tissue Engineering to Facilitate Repair, Regeneration, and Recovery after Neurotrauma and Neurodegeneration; Astrocytes; Mitochondria; Biomedical Translation/Commercialization

Selected Publications

O’Donnell JC: Disorders of nomenclature. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics January 2024.

O’Donnell JC, Petrov D.: Porcine Models of Neurotrauma and Neurological Disorders. Biomedicines January 2024.

Krizman E, Purvis EM, Garcia-Epelboim AD, O’Donnell JC, Cullen DK: A tissue-engineered rostral migratory stream as an in vitro platform to investigate subventricular zone-derived neuroblast migration. Society for Neuroscience November 2023.

Daniel Han, Kevin D. Browne, Natalia Fedorczak, Michael R. Grovola, Elizabeth Krizman, Dmitriy Petrov, D. Kacy Cullen, John C. O’Donnell: Astrocytic changes after closed-head, rotational acceleration TBI in swine. Society for Neuroscience November 2023.

Erin M. Purvis, Andrés D. Garcia-Epelboim, John C. O’Donnell*, D. Kacy Cullen*: Development and characterization of an in vitro platform to investigate subventricular zone-derived neuroblast migration along a tissue-engineered rostral migratory stream. IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience 2023 Meeting in Granada, Spain September 2023.

Erin M Purvis, Natalia Fedorczak, Annette Prah, Daniel Han, John C O’Donnell: Porcine Astrocytes and Their Relevance for Translational Neurotrauma Research. Biomedicines 11(9), August 2023.

Connor A Wathen, Yohannes G Ghenbot, Ali K Ozturk, D Kacy Cullen, John C O’Donnell, Dmitriy Petrov: Porcine Models of Spinal Cord Injury. Biomedicines 11(8), August 2023.

John C. O’Donnell*, Kevin D. Browne, Svetlana Kvint, Leah Makaron, Michael R. Grovola, Saarang Karandikar, Todd J. Kilbaugh, D. Kacy Cullen, and Dmitriy Petrov*: Multimodal Neuromonitoring and Neurocritical Care in Swine to Enhance Translational Relevance in Brain Trauma Research. Biomedicines 11(5), April 2023 Notes: first and co-corresponding author.

Karthikeyan Rajagopal; Thomas P. Schaer; Chenghao Zhang; Kyle D. Meadows; Rachel Hilliard; John C. O'Donnell; George R. Dodge; Dmitriy Petrov; Dawn M. Elliott; Robert L. Mauck;Lachlan J. Smith; Neil R. Malhotra: Physiological Measurement Of Nucleus Pulposus Oxygen, Glucose, And Lactate InA Large Animal Model Of Disc Degeneration: Preliminary Findings. Orthopaedic Research Society Feb 2023.

John C. O’Donnell, Kevin D. Browne, Svetlana Kvint, Saarang Karandikar, Daniel Han, Michael R. Grovola, Todd J. Kilbaugh, D. Kacy Cullen, Dmitriy Petrov: Neurocritical care and multimodal neuromonitoring in comatose swine following TBI. Society for Neuroscience November 2022.