Born in the tiny town of Los Sarmientos in Tucuman, Argentina, Nicolas Bazan's defining moment was witnessing an aunt suffer a seizure while walking him to a music lesson when he was a young boy, putting him on the path to becoming one of the world's premier neuroscientists. Applying himself eagerly to studying fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms behind seizures and in experimental models of debilitating diseases of the brain (Alzheimer's, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's and traumatic brain injury) and retina (macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa), he hopes his life's work leads to innovative therapies that slow down and/or cure those diseases.

Training at some of the most prestigious medical institutions including Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and Harvard Medical School, Bazan took his first faculty appointment at age 26 at the University of Toronto, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, where he immersed himself in the study of neurochemistry.

In the 1970s, he established a research institute in Argentina during a time when his native land was awash in political turmoil. He and his wife essentially fled with their five children to the United States in 1981. Welcomed in New Orleans, Bazan was appointed faculty by the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, where he later established and now heads the LSU Neuroscience Center of Excellence.

Dr. Bazan lives by the creed that "what we do in this one life resonates in the lives of those both present and yet to come."

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