Leo M. Chalupa (born 28 March 1945)[1] is a Ukrainian-American Neuropsychologist who was Vice President for Research and is Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology[2] at George Washington University.

He was previously a Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at the University of California, Davis and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior [3] where he also served as the Director of the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience and Interim Dean of the College of Biological Sciences.

[5] He grew up in the Bronx, New York,[5] graduated from Queens College with a bachelor’s degree in Physiological Psychology in 1966, earned his doctorate in Neuropsychology at the City University of New York in 1970, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1975.

[6] His research involves trying to understand how humans and other animals are able to perceive our surroundings and translate that into brain function which in turn leads to some action.

[16][5] The incident led her mother to single-handedly wage a successful 2-year lobbying campaign in the California legislature for a mandatory child safety seat law that passed in 1982.