Swapan K. Ray received his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. He received his postdoctoral training in the Biology Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. He is currently a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA. Current research interests in his laboratory include understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis in malignant diseases such as glioblastoma, neuroblastoma, and Ewing’s sarcoma and neurodegenerative disorders such as spinal cord injury (SCI), brain ischemia, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), epilepsy, glaucoma, Parkinson’s disease (PD), and the demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis (MS) and development of novel therapeutic strategies for their treatments.
