Biography
Dinko Kranjac is an Associate Professor of Psychology. He earned his PhD in Experimental Psychology with a specialization in behavioral neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology from Texas Christian University. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neuroscience within the Howard Hughes Medical Institute unit at Columbia University Medical Center. Kranjac also served as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and at SRI International, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Symptom Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Kranjac leads the Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Research Lab that investigates the behavioral and neurobiological consequences of immune activation. His research group is primarily focusing on ways in which inflammation may alter varied cognitive processes such as decision-making, learning, and memory. The PNI Research Lab also investigates mechanisms through which long-term stress increases chronic inflammation. Kranjac is designated as core undergraduate faculty and teaches courses in the areas of behavioral neuroscience and learning.