Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Stephen Waxman, M.D., Ph.D. is the Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology and Pharmacology at Yale University. He has served as Chairman of Neurology and Director of the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center at Yale since 1986. Dr. Waxman has received international recognition for his research, which focuses molecular techniques on the brain and spinal cord, with the goal of finding new therapies for neurological disorders such as spinal cord injury, nerve injury, and multiple sclerosis. He has published more than 500 scientific papers, and has trained more than one hundred and fifty neuroscientists who do research at institutions around the world.