Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience
Neurodegeneration, developing brain, traumatic brain injury
Forty years of research and medical education in chronological order, from the Medical University of Varna to Washington University in St. Louis.
Medical degree from the Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria. General practice in a regional polyclinic, followed by an academic appointment in anatomy at the university.
PhD in vascular biology, Medical Academy of Sofia. European Science Foundation and Gulbenkian fellowships in France and England, then postgraduate work with Julia Polak and Geoffrey Burnstock in London.
Washington University School of Medicine. Over thirty years teaching anatomy and neuroscience to medical, graduate, nurse anesthesia and physical therapy students.
Two papers in the journal Science, on NMDA receptor blockade (1999) and ethanol-induced neurodegeneration (2000), with the anesthetic study of 2003. Together cited more than 6,900 times.
Forty years of the Washington University histology course, published as an interactive textbook: 18 chapters, 700 annotated micrographs and 330 virtual slides. Eleven Distinguished Teaching Awards.
“A superb educator with a breadth of knowledge that is unsurpassed in his field.”
