Reep received a UF Research Foundation professorship

Neuroscientist receives Research Foundation professorship Roger Reep, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the College of Veterinary Medicine and a researcher with UF’s McKnight Brain Institute, has received a UF Research Foundation professorship.

Sponsored by the university’s Division of Sponsored Research, the professorships are awarded to tenured faculty members campuswide for distinguished research and scholarship. The honor includes a $5,000 salary increase each year for three years and a one-time $3,000 award for research support.

Reep, a professor in the college’s department of physiological sciences, studies spatial neglect, a syndrome that robs stroke victims of the awareness of half their world. During 20 years of research, Reep and his colleagues developed and used a model in rats that allows for the study of spatial neglect syndrome.

Reep also studies evolution of the brain and recently has focused on the manatee brain, in hopes of developing insights that can help in conservation of the protected animals.

The UF Research Foundation professorships were created by the foundation to recognize faculty members who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.

Reep has been a member of the UF veterinary faculty since 1984.