Volodymyr Gerzanich is an Associate Professor and Director of Pre-Clinical Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. He completed his M.D. from Uzhgorod State University, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, and his Ph.D. from Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, from 1992 to 1998. His areas of interest include ion channels, transporters, cerebrovascular pathophysiology of CNS injury, and neuroinflammation.