|  RICHARD M. COSTANZO, Ph.D
E-mail address: ent@hsc.vcu.edu
Dr. Costanzo is a native of New York , who completed his undergraduate studies in the Department of Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his post graduate training at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse , New York where he received his Ph.D. degree in Physiology. He then obtained postdoctoral research training at the Rockefeller University in Sensory Neurophysiology and at the NYU School of Medicine in Physiology and joined the faculty as an Instructor in Physiology.
In 1979, he joined the Department of Physiology at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine . He established a basic research laboratory to study nerve cell regeneration and progressed to his current position as a tenured Professor of Physiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology and Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Costanzo is actively involved in teaching physiology and neuroscience to both graduate and medical students and has received numerous awards for his outstanding teaching. Dr. Costanzo has been the recipient of several fellowship awards including the NIH Research Career Development Award. He has been principal investigator of NIH research grants for over 24 years and has trained many graduate students, research and clinical fellows. He has served on NIH advisory panels and study sections, research advisory boards and is a member of several professional organizations such as the Society for Neuroscience, AChemS, The American Physiological Society and Sigma Xi. Dr. Costanzo ' s research both laboratory and clinical neuroscience. He is currently researching strategies to improve outcome after nerve and brain injury and is most noted for his work on nerve cell regeneration and functional recovery in the olfactory system. He has published over 150 journal articles, book chapters and abstracts and has been invited to give over 100 lectures at national and international meetings.
Dr. Costanzo is an internationally recognized expert on the loss of smell and taste. He is an active member of the VCU Medical Center Smell and Taste Clinic located in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. The Clinic evaluates patients with smell and taste disorders and is one of a handful of specialty clinics that provides diagnostic testing of smell and taste function.
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