Miguel Skirzewski is a neuroscientist and Senior Scientific Writer with over 15 years of expertise in translational research on neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment. As an Adjunct Professor and Research Associate with the Mouse Translational Research Accelerator Platform (MouseTRAP) at Western University, he pioneered the use of automated touchscreen-based tasks and in vivo neurotechniques integrated with rodent behavioral models to study cognition and motivation in neurodegenerative disorders.
His work has been published in top-tier journals including Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Neuroscience, and Cell Metabolism. His research focuses on how genes and environmental factors such as stress shape neuronal circuits underlying schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, and addiction—yielding insights with high translational relevance to human disease.