Professor
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
United States of America
Tel: 803-216-3420
Dr. Swapan K Ray is Professor in Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at University of South Carolina School of Medicine of Columbia, USA. Dr. Ray received his Ph.D from University of Calcutta, India and Postdoctoral Fellowship from Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. He then worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology at University of South Carolina of Charleston, USA. He also worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosciences of same University. The research interests of his laboratory include the understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of malignant diseases such as glioblastoma, neuroblastoma, and Ewing's sarcoma and also neurodegenerative disorders such as spinal cord injury (SCI), brain ischemia, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS), epilepsy, glaucoma, Parkinson's disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis (MS) and development of novel therapeutic strategies for their treatments.