Nickolay Brustovetsky is a Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine. He holds an M.S. from Voronezh State University and a Ph.D. from the USSR Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he completed his Postdoctoral Training at the Institute for Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, and the Institute for Physical Biochemistry, University of Munich. His research interests include mitochondrial bioenergetics and ion transport, calcium signaling, oxidative stress, glutamate excitotoxicity, and neurodegenerations (particularly, Huntington’s and Alzheimer's diseases).