Georgi Gamkrelidze

Prof. Georgi Gamkrelidze

Institute of Chemical Biology, Ilia State University Tbilisi, Georgia
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Biography

Georgi Gamkrelidze graduated major in physiology with honors from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilis State University in 1988. Following years, he conducted research in cellular mechanisms of behavior at the Moscow State University. There, in 1993 he earned Ph.D. at the Physiology Department. From 1993 till 2007 worked in the USA where he participated in three national institutes of health (NIH) funded research programs. The results of these studies he published in the leading neuroscience journals. He received postdoctoral training at Texas and George Washington universities. At these, universities he studied electrophysiological membrane properties of neurons using various electrophysiological and imaging techniques. Afterwards, he worked as a researcher at the Lucent Technology company and New York University where he investigated mechanisms of the short-term memory. At the Neurology Department of the Northwestern University he held Assistant Professor position where he was investigating pathophysiology of alzheimer disease in genetically modified mice. Since 2007 Georgi Gamkrelidze works at Ilia State University and holds full professors position. At the university he lectures and studies effects of myo-inositol on epileptic brain activity in rodents. During professional career Georgi Gamkrelidze has published twenty-seven research articles.

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