Rajesh Khanna earned a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada where he also obtained his M.Sc. in Pharmacology and a B.Sc. in Toxicology. After completing a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)- and American Heart Association (AHA)-funded postdoctoral fellowship in Physiology and Molecular Biology at the
University of California, Los Angeles, he completed a fellowship in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Toronto Western Research Institute in Toronto, Ontario. Currently, he is the Director of Center for Advanced Pain Therapeutics and Research (CAPToR), University of Florida. Before his current role, he was an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, a Professor at the University of Arizona, and a Professor and Director at NYU Pain Research Center (Molecular Pathobiology), New York University.
Nickolay Brustovetsky is a Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine. He holds an M.S. from Voronezh State University and a Ph.D. from the USSR Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he completed his Postdoctoral Training at the Institute for Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, and the Institute for Physical Biochemistry, University of Munich. His research interests include mitochondrial bioenergetics and ion transport, calcium signaling, oxidative stress, glutamate excitotoxicity, and neurodegenerations (particularly, Huntington’s and Alzheimer's diseases).
