Dr. Peter Hitchcock received a PhD in Visual Neuroscience in 1983 from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Zoology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Hitchcock received a faculty appointment in 1986 in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Michigan, and he is now a Professor in this department. Dr. Hitchcock's research program investigates the molecular mechanisms that govern developmental and regenerative neurogenesis in the vertebrate central nervous system.