Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong was born and raised in Spain, and came to the United States as a teenager. After attending Haverford College, he obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University, studying under Nobel Laureate Walter Gilbert, and retina expert John Dowling. He then did post-doctoral training at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Baltimore, and since 2001 he has been running his own laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of Ophthalmology, and a staff scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Research Institute. He participates in several graduate programs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine including the Neuroscience Graduate Program, the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, and the Human Genetics Program. He teaches in courses on early neural development, on biomedical ethics, and on photoreceptor biology and disease. Besides the support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness for the photoreceptor work in his laboratory, he receives support from the Glaucoma Research Foundation studying glaucoma, and holds two grants from the National Institutes of Health studying basic aspects regarding the regulation of retina development by hormones. His areas of expertise involve broad areas regarding the development and disease of the retina.
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