Bruce Trapp, PhD

Bruce D. Trapp, PhD is Chairman of the Department of Neurosciences at the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and a Professor of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio State University. Dr. Trapp received his PhD in Anatomy from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroanatomical Sciences and the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda. Following his tenure at the NIH, Dr. Trapp assumed the position of Assistant Professor, and subsequently Associate Professor, of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Trapp's research involves the pathobiology of neurological disability in multiple sclerosis patients and the cellular and molecular biology of myelination in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Dr. Trapp has published over 135 peer-reviewed articles and over 20 book chapters. He is a member of the editorial boards of Glia, Journal of Neuroscience Research, and Journal of Neurocytology. Dr. Trapp is the recipient of the Jordi Folch-Pi Award from the American Society of Neurochemistry, the Weil Award from the American Association of Neuropathologists, a Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), the Jacob Javits Award in Neuroscience from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and this year he was awarded the John Dystel Prize for MS Research from the American Academy of Neurology.