His team is currently engaged in systematically exploring genetic manipulations of BACE1 substrates in regard to accelerated axonal regeneration and rapid myelin debris removal seen in BACE1 KO mice. Dr. Farah received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He earned his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the department of pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Farah joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2006.