About the authors

Noam Y. Harel

Noam Y. Harel is an instructor in neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He obtained his B.A., M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. His Ph.D. studies with James C. Alwine focused on the transcriptional activation mechanisms used by cytomegalovirus proteins. He then completed a neurology residency at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, USA. His northward travels continued to Yale, where he spends most of his time in Stephen Strittmatter's laboratory working on Nogo's effects on intracellular trafficking.

Stephen M. Strittmatter

Stephen M. Strittmatter completed M.D. and Ph.D. training at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and a Neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. He joined the faculty at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, in 1993 and currently holds the Vincent Coates Professorship of Neurology. During the past 12 years, his work has contributed to defining a molecular basis for axonal guidance during development and axonal regeneration after adult injury. His work has defined an axonal receptor for Nogo and myelin-associated glycoprotein, and demonstrated its role in limiting recovery from spinal cord injury and stroke. His laboratory is particularly interested in the interplay between endogenous plasticity and recovery from injury.