Background
Okujava, Vazha M. Son of Michael S. Okujava and Nino Modebadze-Okujava.
Okujava, Vazha M. Son of Michael S. Okujava and Nino Modebadze-Okujava.
Doctor of Medicine, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia, 1960. Postgraduate, Institute Physiology, Tbilisi, 1959.
Doctor of Science, Research Center Experimental Neurology, Tbilisi, 1966.
Department head Research Center Experimental Neurology, 1961—2000, director, 2000—2005, chairman science council, since 2005. Chief, laboratory cellular physiology Institute Physiology, Georgia, 1978—1990. Rector I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 1980—1985, head, laboratory neurobiology, since 1985, chairman advisory council, since 2007.
Visiting scientist NINDB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1967—1968, Max Planck Institute Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany, 1970. Vice-rector Tbilisi Medical University, 1973—1975. Chairman, division physiology and experimental medicine Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, 1975—1980.
Member of International League Against Epilepsy, International Bureau Epilepsy, International Brain Research Organization, International Union Physiological Sciences.
Married Zeinab Antadze, April 18, 1964. Children: Natela, Maia, Michael.