Martin Grumet, Ph.D., is director of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuoscience, Nelson Biology Laboratories, and a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.

Grumet is regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in brain development and spinal cord injury repair. He has purified and cloned several novel proteins.

His expertise in cell adhesion has been applied to problems in brain tumor biology and, more recently, in spinal cord injury research.

Grumet has served on grant review advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and has served on the editorial boards of Perspectives on Developmental Neurobiology and Cell & Tissue Research.