Candace Floyd, Ph.D., joined Emory University in October 2022 in the Department of Emergency Medicine where she directs the Translational Neurotrauma Research laboratory that utilizes porcine models of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and neuropathic pain to advance development and translation of novel therapies.
Dr. Floyd also directs the Emory Neurotrauma Translational Research Center, ENTiRe. The overarching goal of ENTiRe is to provide a collaborative resource to accelerate the pace and success of translation of novel treatments by providing highly-clinically relevant pig models and assessment tools to support efficacy and investigation new drug/device (IND)-enabling research.
She is a certified professional in Good Laboratory Practice and expert in behavioral pharmacology, large animal survival surgery, image-guided neurosurgery in large animals, neurotrauma models, and development and back-translation of outcomes from human research/clinical practice to pig models.
Dr. Floyd’s research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, private foundations, and industry contracts. She also receives research support from the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Emory School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital.