Dr. Rex Jeya Rajkumar Samdavid Thanapaul is a research scientist at the Walter Reed Arny Institute of Research (WRAIR), Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience Research. His work sits at the intersection of traumatic brain injury, wound biology, and infection, with a particular emphasis on antimicrobial strategies, host-pathogen insteractions, and factors that impair wound repair such as cellular senescence.