Narendra L Banik is currently a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. He received a Ph.D. from the University of London and completed his postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Neurology, London. He also has an appointment as a Health Science Research Investigator at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Ralph H. Johnson VAMC, Charleston. His current research interests include SCI, MS, Parkinson’s disease, brain trauma, brain tumors and other related neurodegenerative diseases.