Dr.
Krueger earned his postdoctoral degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, a Doctorem Medicinae Honoris Causa from the University
of Szeged, and an undergraduate degree from the University of
Wisconsin. Dr. Krueger also completed postdoctoral studies with
John Pappenheimer at Harvard Medical School. In addition to his
present position, he has held faculty positions at the University of
Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School and the University of
Tennessee Medical School.
Dr. Krueger is the recipient of
several awards, including a Javits Award from NIH/NINDS, the Sahlin
Faculty Excellence Award for Research at Washington State
University, the Board of Trustees Research Award at the Chicago
Medical School and an honorary award from Tokyo Medical and Dental
University.
He was previously a visiting
professor at Nanjing Medical University, and he has served as
president of the Faculty Senate at the University of Tennessee
Medical Center and as chair of the Department of VCAPP at Washington
State University, Pullman.
The Krueger lab's current research is
focused on the biochemical regulation of sleep, the relationships
between sleep and infectious disease and how the brain is organized
to produce sleep. His accomplishments include pioneering studies
that implicate cytokines and the somatotropic axis in sleep
regulation, demonstrate that brain cytokine levels change with
physiology, show that sleep changes over the course of an infection
and provide a testable theory of brain organization of sleep and
sleep function.
Dr.
James Krueger (center) with the other Sleep Research Society award
winners, Dr. Dement (left) and Dr. McCarley (right) at the 2006
Society Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.
Members of the Krueger lab who attended the annual Sleep Society
Meeting in Salt Lake City are pictured above with award winner,
James Kruger (third from right). Krueger leads this
successful lab's sleep research. Members pictured from L-R:
Stewart
Bohnet, Fan Liao, Ping Taishi, Lynn Churchill, Jeannine
Majde-Cottrell, James M. Krueger, Victor Leyva-Grado, and Dr. Alok
De.
