Swapan Ray, PhD

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Affiliation(s): 

University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer's disease, apoptosis, autophagy, mitochondria, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, neuroprotection, oxidative stress, proteases, retinoids

Biography & Research: 

Swapan K. Ray, PhD, is a Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC. He obtained his PhD degree in Biochemistry from University of Calcutta, India, in 1989 and received postdoctoral training (1990-1992) in the Biology Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, where he learned the roles of DNA damage and defective genes in the pathogenesis of different diseases in humans. Subsequently, he investigated molecular basis and signaling mechanisms for modulating cell death processes such as apoptosis and autophagy using experimental therapeutic agents for functional neuroprotection in different neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. He also developed research expertise in areas such as angiogenesis, axonal damage, demyelination, mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and oxidative stress in the central nervous system diseases. He used natural and synthetic compounds as experimental therapeutic agents for prevention of pathogenesis in cell culture and animal models of different neurodegenerative and neoplastic diseases. He is an author or co-author in more than 185 peer-reviewed biomedical journals, 315 abstracts, and 25 book chapters. He edited 2 books and also acted as a guest editor in publishing two peer-reviewed journal issues. He serves as a peer reviewer of the grants for the national and international funding agencies and also serves as a member of the editorial board of different peer-reviewed biomedical journals.