Marcus F. Keep

Biography

Dr. Marcus Keep is co-inventor of cyclosporin neuroprotection and founder of Maas Biolab. He is Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, and is Chief of Neurosurgery at Penn State Health-St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading, Pennsylvania. Until 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii where he maintained an ALS laboratory and was Director of Research at the Gamma Knife Center of the Pacific. Until 2007 Dr. Keep was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Keep's undergraduate degrees are AB in Religion- Dartmouth College, and BS in Chemistry- University of South Carolina. He received his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina. Keep was trained in neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair. He held research fellowships at INSERM Unité 106 at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, and the Restorative Neurology Unit, University of Lund, Sweden. Dr. Keep is Member of the Board of NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB, a public pharmaceutical company in Lund, Sweden.    

Research Interest

 Neurosurgery Pharmaceutical Sciences