Arun Venkatesan, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in the Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections. He received his B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, followed by an M.D. and Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied viral pathogenesis. Following residency in Neurology and a fellowship in Neuroinfectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins, he joined the faculty, where he currently serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center, a multidisciplinary clinical and research program devoted to delineating pathogenesis and optimizing diagnosis and management of patients with infectious and immune-mediated encephalitis. His laboratory studies mechanisms of central nervous system injury in the setting of infection and neuroinflammation. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund.
