Prof. Dr. Robert W. Keane is a Professor at the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Neurological Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from SUNY, College at Buffalo, and his MS and PhD degrees in Genetics from the University of California, Davis. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a postdoctoral fellowship award from the Leukemia Society of America. Over the last 30 years, his research has focused on understanding the innate immune response in the central nervous system. He discovered that inflammasomes are expressed in neurons and play a role in the inflammatory response after central nervous system injury.