Symposium Speaker

Elias Aizenman

Professor Aizenman received an undergraduate degree in Biology from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Toxicology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in 1985. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at Boston’s Children’s Hospital he was appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. In 1989 he moved to the Department of Physiology, and later to the Department of Neurobiology, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he currently serves as Professor of Neurobiology. Dr. Aizenman is also and Adjunct Professor of Morphology at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. He is the current President of the International Society for Zinc Biology. Over the last 22 years, Dr. Aizenman’s laboratory has investigated redox and photic regulation of NMDA receptors, excitotoxic neuronal cell, dopamine oxidation pathways, zinc-mediated neurotoxicity, and potassium channel facilitated forms of neuronal apoptosis, among other topics.

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