About Ben
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Benjamin L.L. Clayton

Assistant Professor

Institute for Glial Sciences

Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

PhD, University of Chicago

BS, University of Utah

Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Ben holds a biology degree from the University of Utah. Ben then completed his graduate studies working with Dr. Brian Popko at The University of Chicago. As a graduate student Ben’s research focused on exploring the role of the integrated stress response in hypoxic injury to glial cells. Ben then moved to Case to train as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Paul Tesar where he established a phenotypic screening platform for identifying small-molecule suppressors of pathological reactive astrocyte states. As postdoc Ben was awarded a Career Transition Award from The National Multiple Sclerosis Society to further study the intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of glia cell pathology in MS. Ben joined the Department of Genetics and Genomes Sciences at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor in June 2024 and is a member of the Institute for Glial Sciences