Panya Manoon

Panya Steve Manoonkitiwongsa is an anatomist and neurobiologist, specializing in neurohistology, neuropathobiology, general histology and neuroanatomy. He is also board certified in electron microscopy, with additional technical expertise in conventional and molecular histotechnology, and morphology-based quantitative analysis and stereology. His academic background includes a PhD in Anatomy, and MS and BS degrees in Biology. His postdoctoral fellowships consisted of a year in neurohistology and histochemistry, and 2 years in neuropathology and quantitative electron microscopy. Panya’s research focuses on the development of safe and effective neuroprotection-based therapy for ischemic stroke treatment, including therapeutic angiogenesis as one of the strategies. His research also focuses on the improvement of preclinical study designs for histopathology-based safety neuropharmacology. His recent studies and publications on therapeutic angiogenesis for stroke treatment, all HMRI papers, are among the first to discover and caution the stroke research community regarding the clinically-significant side effects of the intervention which should be more comprehensively addressed in preclinical studies before therapeutic angiogenesis advances to human trials. Panya serves as the Chief of Histology, Neuroanatomy & Experimental Neuropathology, and Director of Transmission & Scanning Electron Microscopy, Histotechnology, Immunohistochemistry & Image Analysis Laboratories of the Neural Engineering Program of HMRI.