Phillip Popovich completed his PhD training in physiology and spinal cord injury (SCI) at Ohio State University (OSU) where he is currently Professor and Chair of Department of Neuroscience, Director of OSU’s Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair and Executive Director of the Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury. As a post-doctoral fellow, also at OSU, he was awarded a Sandoz Research Fellowship that supported his formal training in immunology and CNS autoimmune disease. His laboratory is currently funded by an NIH R35 Outstanding Investigator Award with a research focus on understanding how SCI disrupts communication between the nervous and immune systems leading to a state of chronic immune dysfunction, including immune suppression and “metainflammation”.