Washington University in St. Louis
School of Medicine, St. Louis

Krikor
Dikranian MD, PhD

Professor of Anatomy in Neuroscience

Neurodegeneration, developing brain, traumatic brain injury

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Dr. Krikor Dikranian
95Publications
16,158Citations
36h-index
30Years teaching
1978 – PRESENT

Four decades in neuroscience

Scroll through four decades of looking closely.

1978, VARNA

MD, Medical University of Varna

MD from the Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria. Anatomy becomes the lens for everything after.

1992, SOFIA → LONDON

PhD, Sofia. Postdoctoral work, London

PhD in vascular biology, then postgraduate work with Julia Polak and Geoffrey Burnstock in London.

1994, ST. LOUIS

Professorship at Washington University

Washington University School of Medicine. Thirty years of medical students learn the brain from him.

1999–2003

Landmark studies in Science

Science, twice. Anesthetics, alcohol, and the developing brain: work cited more than 5,500 times, foundational to the FDA's pediatric anesthesia review.

Featured publications

1999Blockade of NMDA receptors and apoptotic neurodegeneration — Science2,542
2000Ethanol-induced apoptotic neurodegeneration and fetal alcohol syndrome — Science1,770
2003Early anesthetic exposure and neurodegeneration in the developing brain2,595