[1][2][3] At NINDS, Nath also leads the Section of Infections of the Nervous System and plans to institute a translational research center.
[4][5][6] Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Nath attended Christian Medical College, Ludhiana in Punjab, India.
[5] Nath began his first faculty position in June, 1990, at the University of Manitoba in Canada, where he was promoted from assistant to associate professor and led the research group on neurovirology and neurodegenerative diseases.
Nath has served as a staff neurologist in Manitoba; Lexington, Kentucky; and at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In a 2015 paper in Science Translational Medicine, Nath and colleagues proposed the controversial hypothesis that endogenous retroviruses may play a causal role in a subset of ALS cases.
In a 2017 publication in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Dr. Nath and colleagues implicated an autoimmune reaction to O. volvulus as a potential cause of the disease.