Victor Arvanian

Professor, Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University, USA

1981 Ph.D. Biophysics, Acad. Sci. Armenia.

1990 D.Sc. Neurobiology, Acad. Sci Ukraine.

1990 – 1992 Research Fellow, Royal Society London, Univ. Southampton, Nottingham.

1992 – 1993 Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University.

1993-1994 Research Scientist, UTMB Galveston Texas.

1994-1998 Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University.

1998-2008 Group head within laboratory of Dr. Lorne Mendell and Associate member at the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

2008 – current, Northport VAMC, Head of laboratory, Research Professor, Project Director.

Research of my laboratory seeks to design novel gene therapy and examine the FDA-approved approaches, with a final goal, to translate these results into clinical application, improving function following SCI.