Raj Ratan, MD, PhD

Rajiv (“Raj”) Ratan received his B.A. in Neuroscience from Amherst College, and M.D. and Ph.D. at the NYU School of Medicine.  He completed an Internship in Medicine at the University of Chicago, and a Neurology residency and fellowship in Neurorehabilitation and a post-doc in the Department of Neuroscience at at Johns Hopkins. In 1994, he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Neurology and Rehab Medicine at Hopkins and he started his own lab with the help of his post-doc mentor, Jay Baraban.

In 1996, he was recruited to set up the Neuroprotection Laboratory in the Department of Neurology and Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School (Harvard Institutes of Medicine and Beth Israel Hospital). He became an Associate Professor at Harvard in 1999.  In 2002, Dr. Ratan moved to Burke to Direct the Research Institute. He was formally appointed the Winifred Masterson Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Medical College in 2004 and named an Associate Dean for the medical college in 2011.