Steven W. Levison graduated from the University of Rochester, where he received a B.S. in Neuroscience in 1983. He completed a Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 1990 at UNC-Chapel Hill, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Program in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University. Dr. Levison joined the faculty of New Jersey Medical School in 2004 after 11 years on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University Hershey College of Medicine. He presently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School and directs the Laboratory for Regenerative Neurobiology. Dr. Levison has authored over 115 peer-reviewed scientific articles and his research has been supported for over 30 years by the NIH and state and non-profit foundations. He is recognized internationally for his pioneering studies that have established that there is a regenerative response from the endogenous neural stem cells of the subventricular zone to neonatal brain injury that leads to the production of new neurons and glia. The scientists who currently work with Dr. Levison are working to elucidate the origins of neurodevelopmental disorders, to promote regeneration from the subventricular zone and to protect the immature and adult brain from tertiary neurodegeneration.