Bruce F. O’ Hara

Bruce O’Hara is Professor of Biology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, and is Director of the University’s Rodent Behavior Core Facility. Prof. O’Hara’s expertise is in neurosciences, sleep and circadian rhythms, genetics, and genomics. Dr. O’Hara has been involved in multiple start-up companies, and co-founded and currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Signal Solutions, LLC, a company developing non-invasive technology for sleep research. Dr. O’Hara has extensive experience directing and participating in large international collaborations comprised of engineers and biomedical researchers. He has recently studied sleep aberrations in Alzheimer’s Disease model mice and traumatic brain injury, as well as investigated a variety of potential sleep/wake therapeutics using this novel high-throughput technology. Prof. O’Hara received his Ph.D. Degree from The Johns Hopkins University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the NIDA/NIH, and a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. Prof. O’Hara has published over sixty peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters and has consulted for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.