Andrew Blight

Andrew Blight received his PhD from the University of Bristol in the UK and completed postdoctoral fellowships in the U.S. at NYU and Germany at Max Planck Institute. He subsequently held faculty positions at New York University Medical Center (1980-1987), Purdue University (1987-1992) and the University of North Carolina where he was Professor and Director of the Neurosurgery Research Laboratory from 1992-1998. He joined Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. in 1998 and was Chief Scientific Officer from 2004 to 2017.