Dr. Tuszynski obtained his bachelor of science and M.D. degrees at the University of Minnesota, and completed residency training in neurology at Cornell University Medical Center / The New York Hospital. He then earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California-San Diego. He has been a faculty member at the University of California-San Diego since 1991, and is currently the Director of the Center for Neural Repair and Founding Director of the UCSD Translational Neuroscience Institute.